STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6364

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 6, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
          mental  Conservation)  --  read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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 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 201 of  the  laws  of  2016,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
     5  [nineteen] twenty-two, 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.
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