Bill Text: NY S07206 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage oysters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - SIGNED CHAP.201 [S07206 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07206-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7206 IN SENATE April 6, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- (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 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 171 of the laws of 2014, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand 5 [sixteen] nineteen, 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. LBD14146-01-6
