Bill Text: NY A10114 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage oysters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-08 - substituted by s7206 [A10114 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A10114-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10114 IN ASSEMBLY May 11, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS, 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 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 171 of the laws of 2014, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand 5 [sixteen] nineteen, 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 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14146-01-6
