Bill Text: NY A08918 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8918 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Changes the department of environmental conservation's requirements from cooperating with municipalities to consulting with municipalities regarding harvest closure of crabs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-22 - substituted by s7297 [A08918 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08918-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8918
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          taking of crabs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 8  of  section  13-0331  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  added by a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending
     3  the environmental conservation law relating to the taking of  crabs,  as
     4  proposed  in legislative bills numbers A. 8184-A and S. 6682, is amended
     5  to read as follows:
     6    8. The department shall, when adopting  regulation  measures  for  the
     7  management  of  horseshoe  crabs  (Limulus  sp.) pursuant to subdivision
     8  seven of this section, [cooperate] consult with  any  town,  village  or
     9  county  that  requests  any  municipal  property be subject to a harvest
    10  closure.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    12  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2017, amending the environmental
    13  conservation law relating to the the taking of  crabs,  as  proposed  in
    14  legislative bills numbers A. 8184-A and S. 6682, takes effect.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11984-05-7