§ 961. Legislative declaration. The legislature hereby declares it to be in the public interest to protect and manage the South Shore Estuary System as a single integrated estuary. It is further in the public interest to establish a council made up of representatives of state and local governments and private citizens to create a South Shore Estuary Reserve, prepare a comprehensive management plan and make recommendations to preserve, protect and enhance the natural, recreational, economic and educational resources of the reserve, which the state and local governments may incorporate into policy, laws or regulations.

Terms Used In N.Y. Executive Law 961

  • Council: shall mean the Long Island South Shore Estuary reserve council created by section nine hundred sixty-four of this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 962
  • Estuary: shall mean all or part of the mouth of a river or stream or any body of water having an unimpaired natural connection with the open sea and within which sea water is measurably diluted with fresh-water derived from land drainage, including associated aquatic ecosystems and those portions of tributaries draining into the estuary up to the historic height of migration of anadromous fish or the historic head of tidal influence, whichever is higher. See N.Y. Executive Law 962
  • Plan: shall mean the comprehensive management plan created pursuant to section nine hundred sixty-six of this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 962
  • Reserve: shall mean all the water and underwater lands comprising the South Shore Estuary and the lands which gather and transmit precipitation as either groundwater or run-off into such system and which are designated on a map prepared by a designated planning entity and adopted by the council. See N.Y. Executive Law 962
  • South Shore Estuary: shall mean the Estuary located on the South Shore of Long Island between the western boundary of the Town of Hempstead and the Eastern Boundary of Shinnecock Bay. See N.Y. Executive Law 962
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