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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