Bill Text: NY A08087 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8087 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Extends provisions relating to the taking of fish, shellfish, and crustacea in special management areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-17 - substituted by s5004a [A08087 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08087-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8087--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- (at request of the Department of
         Environmental Conservation) -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Environmental Conservation -- reported and referred to the  Commit-
         tee  on  Rules  --  Rules  Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         extending  the  authority of the department of environmental conserva-
         tion to restrict the  taking  of  fish,  shellfish  and  crustacea  in
         special management areas
         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  13-0360  of  the  environmental
    2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  86 of the laws of 2011, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
    5  may, until December  thirty-first,  two  thousand  [fifteen]  SEVENTEEN,
    6  adopt  regulations restricting the taking of fish, shellfish and crusta-
    7  cea in any special management area designated  pursuant  to  subdivision
    8  two  of this section. Such regulations may restrict the manner of taking
    9  of fish, shellfish and crustacea in such areas and the landing of  fish,
   10  shellfish  and  crustacea  which  have  been taken therefrom. Such regu-
   11  lations shall be consistent with all  relevant  federal  and  interstate
   12  fisheries  management  plans  and with the marine fisheries conservation
   13  and management policy set forth in section 13-0105 of this article.
   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.
                                                                  LBD09442-04-5