Bill Text: NY S06949 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7436 [S06949 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06949-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6949

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. FERNANDEZ -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
          ronmental 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  restrict  the  taking  of  fish,  shellfish and crustacea in
          special management areas

          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  13-0360 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by section 1 of item K of subpart A of part
     3  XXX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
     5  may,  until   December   thirty-first,   two   thousand   [twenty-three]
     6  twenty-six,  adopt regulations restricting the taking of fish, shellfish
     7  and crustacea in any special  management  area  designated  pursuant  to
     8  subdivision  two  of  this  section.  Such  regulations may restrict the
     9  manner of taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in such areas and  the
    10  landing  of  fish,  shellfish and crustacea which have been taken there-
    11  from. Such regulations shall be consistent with all relevant federal and
    12  interstate fisheries management plans  and  with  the  marine  fisheries
    13  conservation  and management policy set forth in section 13-0105 of this
    14  article.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05870-01-3