N.Y. County Law § 827: Enforcement of environmental conservation law in certain counties

§ 827. Enforcement of environmental conservation law in certain

counties. In those counties wherein the state owns a park, forest

preserve, reforested area, hatchery, nursery, game refuge, or wherein

the state has established and controls fire prevention apparatus and

structures, public hunting, trapping and fishing grounds, marine

fisheries, or other lawful objects established and controlled by the

state in furtherance of the preservation of the natural resources and

wild life of the state, the board of supervisors shall have power to

appropriate not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year for the

purpose of aiding the state in the enforcement of the provisions of the

environmental conservation law. Such appropriation shall be expended by

the county pursuant to a contract made with the department of

environmental conservation in the manner provided in section two hundred

twenty-five of this chapter or paid to the state and expended by the

department of environmental conservation pursuant to the provisions of

the environmental conservation law. The county of Erie may appropriate

not exceeding four thousand dollars for this purpose. Nothing herein

shall be deemed to allow the payment of extra compensation to any

officer in the performance of official duties for which a compensation

is otherwise provided by law. Nothing herein shall be deemed to modify

or impair the power of a county to enforce the provisions of the

environmental conservation law or its own ordinances, rules and

regulations upon grounds or structures owned and controlled by the

county.