Section 827. Enforcement of environmental conservation law in certain counties  


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  • 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.