Removes the provision that an immediate family member needs to be domiciled in the house of the license or permit holder for the purpose of commercial fishing license transfers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2193
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- 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 the
definition of "immediate family"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 6 of section 13-0328 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 264 of the laws of
3 2014, is amended to read as follows:
4 d. For purposes of this section, "immediate family" shall include
5 spouse, sibling, parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, and, in addi-
6 tion, all persons who are related by blood, marriage or adoption to the
7 license or permit holder [and domiciled in the house of the license or
8 permit holder].
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
10 licenses or permits eligible to be re-issued under subdivision 6 of
11 section 13-0328 of the environmental conservation law where the license
12 or permit holder dies after January 1, 2013 before surrendering their
13 license or permit to the department of environmental conservation and
14 the license or permit holder has designated in writing a member of their
15 immediate family, as defined in section one of this act, to whom the
16 license or permit may be re-issued.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06005-01-5
