STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sillitti) --
(at request of the Department of Environmental 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 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 262 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 § 13-0327. Scallops.
5 The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twen-
6 ty-four] twenty-seven, adopt by regulation measures for the management
7 of scallops (Family Pectinidae) including size limits, catch and
8 possession limits, open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions
9 on the manner of taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligi-
10 bility therefor, recordkeeping and identification requirements, require-
11 ments on the amount and type of fishing effort and gear, and require-
12 ments relating to transportation, possession and sale, provided that
13 such regulations are no less restrictive than requirements set forth in
14 this 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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