Provides that no person shall engage in the operation of a marine hatchery or in the off-bottom or on-bottom culture of any species belonging to the order Octopoda unless for scientific or educational purposes for the purpose of human consumption.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8043--C
Cal. No. 460
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE, REYES, BURDICK, LAVINE, SIMON, WOERNER,
BORES, ROMERO, GRIFFIN, R. CARROLL, LUNSFORD, WILLIAMS, KASSAY,
KELLES, LASHER, COLTON, GALLAGHER, SCHIAVONI, LUPARDO, VALDEZ, GONZA-
LEZ-ROJAS, SEAWRIGHT, ROSENTHAL, HEVESI, MORENO, TAPIA, KAY, McMAHON,
GLICK, LEVENBERG -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. STECK -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Environ-
mental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes -- reported from committee, advanced to a third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to octo-
pus farming
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 13-0316 of environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Prohibition. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
4 no person shall engage in the operation of a marine hatchery or in the
5 off-bottom or on-bottom culture of any species belonging to the order
6 Octopoda unless for scientific or educational purposes, as authorized
7 pursuant to section 11-0515 of this chapter, and unrelated to the culti-
8 vation of the species for human consumption.
9 § 2. Section 71-0925 of the environmental conservation law is amended
10 by adding a new subdivision 7-d to read as follows:
11 7-d. If the violation was an act prohibited by subdivision three of
12 section 13-0316 of this chapter, or any rule or regulation promulgated
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 thereunder, not to exceed one thousand dollars for each day in violation
2 thereof.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
4 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
5 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
6 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
7 completed on or before such effective date.
