Bill Text: NY S06988 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-22 - SIGNED CHAP.163 [S06988 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6988
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 11, 2014
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       Introduced by Sen. GRISANTI -- (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 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 425 of the laws  of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4  S 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 [fourteen] EIGHTEEN,  fix
    8  by  regulation  open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking
    9  of all species of fish in all waters of the state,  except  marine  fish
   10  named  in  subdivisions  2  and 3 of section 13-0339 of this chapter and
   11  except to the extent that such open seasons, size and catch  limits  and
   12  manner  of  taking are otherwise specifically provided for in article 13
   13  of this chapter.
   14    S 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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