2016 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 29 - (Agriculture & Markets) GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP
506 - Growth, sale, distribution, transportation and processing of industrial hemp and products derived from such hemp permitted.

  506.  Growth,  sale, distribution, transportation and processing of
  industrial  hemp  and  products  derived  from  such   hemp   permitted.
  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of law to the contrary, industrial hemp
  and products derived from such hemp are agricultural products which  may
  be  grown,  produced  and possessed in the state, and sold, distributed,
  transported  or  processed  either  in  or  out  of  state  as  part  of
  agricultural  pilot programs pursuant to authorization under federal law
  and the provisions of this article.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary  restricting  the
  growing or cultivating, sale, distribution, transportation or processing
  of  industrial  hemp and products derived from such hemp, and subject to
  authorization under federal law, the commissioner may authorize no  more
  than ten sites for the growing or cultivating of industrial hemp as part
  of  agricultural  pilot  programs  conducted by the department and/or an
  institution of higher education to study  the  growth  and  cultivation,
  sale,  distribution,  transportation  and  processing  of  such hemp and
  products derived from such hemp provided that  the  sites  and  programs
  used  for  growing  or cultivating industrial hemp are certified by, and
  registered with, the department.