Bill Text: NY A00431 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that persons participating in a fishing class or clinic sponsored by a school or university are exempt from fishing license requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A00431 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00431-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         providing that persons participating in a non-commercial fishing class
         or  clinic sponsored by a school or university are exempt from fishing
         license requirements
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  11-0707 of the environmental conservation law is
    2  amended by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10. PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN A NON-COMMERCIAL FISHING CLASS OR  CLINIC
    4  SPONSORED  BY  A SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY MAY TAKE FISH AND FROGS AS IF THEY
    5  HELD FISHING LICENSES EXCEPT THAT THEY MAY NOT TAKE BAIT FISH BY NET  OR
    6  TRAP.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00278-01-5