The Federal Aviation Administration’s rules on drone operation leave plenty of latitude for state and local governments to set their own policies, experts told a gathering Thursday at the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting in Manhattan.

The FAA guidelines, finalized in August 2016, leave a host of areas where the federal agency has not pre-empted local and state officials, and even appears to welcome their input, Goldberg Segalla partners Joseph Hanna and Dennis Glascott told the state bar’s local and state government law section.

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