Documents

The Adirondack Park Agency on-line library provides documents pertaining to laws, regulations and standards, as well as guidelines, reports and helpful flyers.

Documents are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader. Help for PDF documents is found here.

Laws, Regulations and Standards

Flyers

Guidelines and Methodology

Policies

Reports

Adirondack Park Agency 2011 Annual Report (pdf 3.2Mb)

Fast Facts

The following documents meet many common needs.

Citizen's Guide -- (370kb)
Adirondack Park Agency Act -- (294kb)
Rules and Regulations -- (590kb)
Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan -- (440kb)

If you're not sure where to start, start with the Citizen's Guide. It should answer many questions or direct you to sources that will.

Other sources of information from New York State include:
the State Library
the State Museum
the State Archives
the Department of Environmental Conservation