Bill Text: NY S05745 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage sharks; extends provisions until December 31, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8277 [S05745 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05745-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5745
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 27, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE -- (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 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  amended  by  chapter 137 of the laws of 2015, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4. The department  may,  until  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
     5  [seventeen]  twenty,  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. §1800 et seq.).
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09940-01-7