STATE OF NEW YORK
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8018
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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 oysters
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 13-0323 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 367 of the laws of 2022, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 3. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand
5 [twenty-five] twenty-seven, fix by regulation measures for the manage-
6 ment of oysters (Family Ostreidae) including size limits, catch and
7 possession limits, open and closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions
8 on the manner of taking and landing, requirements for permits and eligi-
9 bility therefor, recordkeeping and identification requirements, require-
10 ments on the amount and type of fishing effort and gear, and require-
11 ments relating to transportation, possession and sale, provided that
12 such regulations are no less restrictive than requirements set forth in
13 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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