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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3795
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred 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 his or
13 her license or permit to the department of environmental conservation
14 and the license or permit holder has designated in writing a member of
15 his or her immediate family, as defined in section one of this act, to
16 whom the license or permit may be re-issued.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04815-01-3
