Bill Text: NY A07436 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-08-23 - signed chap.315 [A07436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07436-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7436

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 19, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. McMAHON -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
          ronmental  Conservation) -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          extending  the  authority of the department of environmental conserva-
          tion to restrict the  taking  of  fish,  shellfish  and  crustacea  in
          special management areas

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3  of  section  13-0360  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by section 1 of item K of subpart A of part
     3  XXX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
     5  may,   until   December   thirty-first,   two   thousand  [twenty-three]
     6  twenty-six, adopt regulations restricting the taking of fish,  shellfish
     7  and  crustacea  in  any  special  management area designated pursuant to
     8  subdivision two of this  section.  Such  regulations  may  restrict  the
     9  manner  of taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in such areas and the
    10  landing of fish, shellfish and crustacea which have  been  taken  there-
    11  from. Such regulations shall be consistent with all relevant federal and
    12  interstate  fisheries  management  plans  and  with the marine fisheries
    13  conservation and management policy set forth in section 13-0105 of  this
    14  article.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05870-01-3