Bill Text: NY A10860 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage striped bass.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-07 - substituted by s8103 [A10860 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10860-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10860
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 24, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. 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 manage striped bass
          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  11-0303 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 193 of  the  laws  of  2015,  is
     3  amended as follows:
     4    3.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
     5  [eighteen] twenty-one, fix by regulation measures for the management  of
     6  striped  bass,  including size limits, catch and possession limits, open
     7  and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the manner  of  taking
     8  and  landing, requirements for permits and eligibility therefor, record-
     9  keeping requirements, requirements on the amount  and  type  of  fishing
    10  effort and gear, and requirements relating to transportation, possession
    11  and  sale,  provided  that such regulations are no less restrictive than
    12  requirements set forth in this chapter and provided  further  that  such
    13  regulations  are consistent with the compliance requirements of applica-
    14  ble fishery management plans adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fish-
    15  eries Commission and with applicable provisions  of  fishery  management
    16  plans  adopted  pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conservation and Manage-
    17  ment Act (16 U.S.C. § 1800 et seq.).
    18    § 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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