STATE OF NEW YORK
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7907
IN SENATE
March 8, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. CROCI -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
mental 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 scallops
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 13-0327 of the environmental conservation law, as
2 amended by chapter 134 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 § 13-0327. Scallops.
5 The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [eigh-
6 teen] twenty-one, adopt by regulation measures for the management of
7 scallops (Family Pectinidae) including size limits, catch and possession
8 limits, open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the
9 manner of taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligibility
10 therefor, recordkeeping and identification requirements, requirements on
11 the amount and type of fishing effort and gear, and requirements relat-
12 ing to transportation, possession and sale, provided that such regu-
13 lations are no less restrictive than requirements set forth in this
14 chapter.
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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