Bill Text: NY S07159 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage oysters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-07-22 - SIGNED CHAP.171 [S07159 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S07159-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7159--A I N S E N A T E May 1, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ZELDIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to extending the authority of the department of environmental conserva- tion to manage oysters 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 13-0323 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand 5 [fourteen] SIXTEEN, fix by regulation measures for the management of 6 oysters (Family Ostreidae) including size limits, catch and possession 7 limits, open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the 8 manner of taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligibility 9 therefor, recordkeeping and identification requirements, requirements on 10 the amount and type of fishing effort and gear, and requirements relat- 11 ing to transportation, possession and sale, provided that such regu- 12 lations are no less restrictive than requirements set forth in this 13 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. LBD13960-03-4