Bill Text: NY S07643 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of environmental conservation to design a universal sign warning of the threat of aquatic invasive species and the mitigation of such threat.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9927A [S07643 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07643-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7643
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 22, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
         Parks and Recreation
       AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to directing the depart-
         ment of environmental conservation to establish and  provide  for  the
         posting  at  public  boat launches of universal signage warning of the
         threat of aquatic invasive species and providing for  the  elimination
         of such threat posed by watercraft
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The navigation law is amended by adding a new section  35-d
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  35-D.  AQUATIC  INVASIVE SPECIES SIGNS AT PUBLIC BOAT LAUNCHES.  1.
    4  THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION SHALL DESIGN AND  ESTABLISH
    5  A  UNIVERSAL SIGN WHICH MAY BE POSTED AT ANY ACCESS POINT TO THE NAVIGA-
    6  BLE WATERS OF THE STATE RELATING TO THE THREAT AND MITIGATION OF AQUATIC
    7  INVASIVE SPECIES, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION 9-1703 OF THE
    8  ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW, IN THE WATERS OF THE STATE.
    9    2. COMMENCING WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF  THIS  SECTION,
   10  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION SHALL POST OR PROVIDE FOR
   11  THE POSTING OF THE UNIVERSAL SIGN, ESTABLISHED PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION
   12  ONE OF THIS SECTION, AT EACH PUBLIC BOAT LAUNCH IN THE STATE.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15333-01-4