Bill Text: NY S06858 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires publication of laws relating to the control of invasive species.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-01 - SIGNED CHAP.342 [S06858 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06858-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6858
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 30, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- 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
         requiring  publication  of  laws  relating  to the control of invasive
         species
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 11-0323 of the environmental conservation law, as
    2  amended by chapter 84 of the  laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4  S 11-0323. Publication of Fish and Wildlife Law.
    5    1. The department shall compile and index each year after the adjourn-
    6  ment  of the legislature the laws relating to fish and wildlife, AS WELL
    7  AS INVASIVE SPECIES (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 9-1703 OF THIS  CHAPTER),  as
    8  amended  to date. Copies of the compilation shall be printed in pamphlet
    9  form of pocket size in the number for which the legislature  may  appro-
   10  priate funds.
   11    2.  The  department  shall  also  prepare  a syllabus of such laws and
   12  information informing migratory game bird hunters where they can  obtain
   13  information  regarding  open  seasons  and bag limits [and], AND OF LAWS
   14  RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 9-1703 OF THIS CHAP-
   15  TER). THE DEPARTMENT shall deliver copies OF SUCH  SYLLABUS  to  county,
   16  city,  town  and village clerks in numbers sufficient for the furnishing
   17  of one copy to each person  to  whom  a  hunting,  trapping  or  fishing
   18  license  is  issued. Each such licensee shall be entitled to one copy of
   19  such syllabus.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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