Bill Text: NY A07679 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage oysters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - signed chap.220 [A07679 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07679-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7679 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS, ENGLEBRIGHT -- (at request of the Depart- ment 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 manage oysters 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 13-0323 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 201 of the laws of 2016, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand 5 [nineteen] twenty-two, fix by regulation measures for the management of 6 oysters (Family Ostreidae) including size limits, catch and possession 7 limits, open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the 8 manner of taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligibility 9 therefor, recordkeeping and identification requirements, requirements on 10 the amount and type of fishing effort and gear, and requirements relat- 11 ing to transportation, possession and sale, provided that such regu- 12 lations are no less restrictive than requirements set forth in this 13 chapter. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09071-01-9