Bill Text: NY S04817 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows the use of spears or spearguns in commercial and recreational bass fishing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04817-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 4817--A                                            A. 6312--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                      March 2, 2017
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
          Conservation  -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
          vation  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          recreational and commercial spearfishing  in  New  York's  marine  and
          coastal waters
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 1  of  section  11-1301  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law, as added by chapter 435 of the laws of
     3  2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    c. Except as otherwise prohibited by law, fish may be taken  by  spear
     5  or  speargun  in the marine and coastal district [only] for recreational
     6  and commercial purposes. A speargun must be submerged when used to  take
     7  fish.  Provided,  however,  that  no  food fish may be taken by spear or
     8  speargun within one hundred yards of a public bathing area.
     9    § 2. Section 13-0347 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
    10  by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    11    5. Striped bass may be taken in New York's marine and coastal district
    12  for all purposes by use of a spear or speargun as defined by paragraph f
    13  of subdivision one of section 11-0103 of this chapter.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
     2  the amendments to paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section 11-1301 of the
     3  environmental conservation law made by section one of this act shall not
     4  affect the repeal of such paragraph and shall be deemed repealed  there-
     5  with.