Bill Text: NY A08000 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage sharks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-13 - signed chap.137 [A08000 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08000-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
                                     June 3, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, ENGLEBRIGHT -- (at request of the Depart-
         ment  of  Environmental Conservation) -- 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 sharks
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  13-0338 of the environmental
    2  conservation law, as separately amended by chapters 170 and 171  of  the
    3  laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
    4    4.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
    5  [fifteen] SEVENTEEN, fix by regulation measures for  the  management  of
    6  sharks,  including  size  limits,  catch and possession limits, open and
    7  closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the manner of  taking  and
    8  landing,  requirements for permits and eligibility therefor, recordkeep-
    9  ing requirements, requirements on the amount and type of fishing  effort
   10  and  gear,  and  requirements relating to transportation, possession and
   11  sale, provided that  such  regulations  are  no  less  restrictive  than
   12  requirements  set  forth  in this chapter and provided further that such
   13  regulations are consistent with the compliance requirements of  applica-
   14  ble fishery management plans adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fish-
   15  eries  Commission  and  with applicable provisions of fishery management
   16  plans adopted pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conservation  and  Manage-
   17  ment Act (16 U.S.C. S1800 et seq.).
   18    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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