Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking of all species of fish.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9302
IN SENATE
May 13, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 fish
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 11-1303 of the environmental conservation law, as
2 amended by chapter 221 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 § 11-1303. Open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish
5 fixed by regulation.
6 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
7 may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-two] twenty-five,
8 fix by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of
9 taking of all species of fish in all waters of the state, except marine
10 fish named in subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 13-0339 of this chapter
11 and except to the extent that such open seasons, size and catch limits
12 and manner of taking are otherwise specifically provided for in article
13 13 of this 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.
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