Bill Text: NY S05748 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7965 [S05748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05748-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5748
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
          mental Conservation) -- read  twice  and  ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed to be committed 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  restrict  the  taking  of  fish,  shellfish and crustacea in
          special management areas
          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  13-0360 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 200 of  the  laws  of  2015,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
     5  may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [seventeen] twenty, adopt
     6  regulations  restricting  the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in
     7  any special management area designated pursuant to  subdivision  two  of
     8  this  section.  Such  regulations  may  restrict the manner of taking of
     9  fish, shellfish and crustacea in such areas and  the  landing  of  fish,
    10  shellfish  and  crustacea  which  have  been taken therefrom. Such regu-
    11  lations shall be consistent with all  relevant  federal  and  interstate
    12  fisheries  management  plans  and with the marine fisheries conservation
    13  and management policy set forth in section 13-0105 of this article.
    14    § 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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