Bill Text: NY A07607 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage scallops until the year 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - signed chap.262 [A07607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07607-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7607

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 19, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred 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 scallops

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 13-0327 of the environmental conservation  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  256  of  the  laws  of 2018, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4  § 13-0327. Scallops.
     5    The department may, until December thirty-first, two  thousand  [twen-
     6  ty-one]  twenty-four, adopt by regulation measures for the management of
     7  scallops (Family Pectinidae) including size limits, catch and possession
     8  limits, open and closed  seasons,  closed  areas,  restrictions  on  the
     9  manner  of  taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligibility
    10  therefor, recordkeeping and identification requirements, requirements on
    11  the amount and type of fishing effort and gear, and requirements  relat-
    12  ing  to  transportation,  possession  and sale, provided that such regu-
    13  lations are no less restrictive than  requirements  set  forth  in  this
    14  chapter.
    15    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11233-01-1