Bill Text: NY A10859 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage scallops to two thousand twenty-one.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.256 [A10859 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10859-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10859
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 24, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PELLEGRINO, ENGLEBRIGHT -- (at request of the
          Department 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 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 134 of the laws  of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4  § 13-0327. Scallops.
     5    The  department  may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [eigh-
     6  teen] twenty-one, 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.
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