Bill Text: NY A07965 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending 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 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-21 - signed chap.209 [A07965 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07965-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7965
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WALLACE,  ENGLEBRIGHT  -- (at request of the
          Department of Environmental 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  chapter 200 of the laws of 2015, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
     5  may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [seventeen] twenty, adopt
     6  regulations restricting the taking of fish, shellfish and  crustacea  in
     7  any  special  management  area designated pursuant to subdivision two of
     8  this section. Such regulations may restrict  the  manner  of  taking  of
     9  fish,  shellfish  and  crustacea  in such areas and the landing of fish,
    10  shellfish and crustacea which have  been  taken  therefrom.  Such  regu-
    11  lations  shall  be  consistent  with all relevant federal and interstate
    12  fisheries management plans and with the  marine  fisheries  conservation
    13  and management policy set forth in section 13-0105 of this article.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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