Bill Text: NY S04885 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage striped bass.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-13 - SIGNED CHAP.193 [S04885 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04885-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4885
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 22, 2015
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       Introduced by Sen. VENDITTO -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
         mental  Conservation)  --  read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed 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 striped bass
         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  11-0303 of the environmental
    2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 87  of  the  laws  of  2011,  is
    3  amended as follows:
    4    3.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
    5  [fifteen] EIGHTEEN, fix by regulation measures  for  the  management  of
    6  striped  bass,  including size limits, catch and possession limits, open
    7  and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the manner  of  taking
    8  and  landing, requirements for permits and eligibility therefor, record-
    9  keeping requirements, requirements on the amount  and  type  of  fishing
   10  effort and gear, and requirements relating to transportation, possession
   11  and  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. S 1800 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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