Bill Text: NY A07689 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7689 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking of all species of fish.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - signed chap.221 [A07689 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07689-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7689

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE, 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 fish

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

     1    Section 1. Section 11-1303 of the environmental conservation  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  200  of  the  laws  of 2016, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4  § 11-1303. Open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish
     5               fixed by regulation.
     6    Notwithstanding any other provision of this  chapter,  the  department
     7  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand [nineteen] twenty-two,
     8  fix by regulation open seasons, size and  catch  limits  and  manner  of
     9  taking  of all species of fish in all waters of the state, except marine
    10  fish named in subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 13-0339  of  this  chapter
    11  and  except  to the extent that such open seasons, size and catch limits
    12  and manner of taking are otherwise specifically provided for in  article
    13  13 of this 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.
                                                                   LBD09114-01-9