STATE OF NEW YORK
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7436
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. McMAHON -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
ronmental Conservation) -- read once and referred 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.
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