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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7421--B
Cal. No. 1307
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, BOTTCHER, BRISPORT, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK,
GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, MURRAY, RAMOS, RHOADS, SALAZAR, TEDISCO -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said
committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third
reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in 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
13 thereunder, not to exceed one thousand dollars for each day in violation
14 thereof.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
17 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
18 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
19 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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