Relates to qualifications for individuals designated or appointed to the conservation fund advisory board, no longer requiring that such individuals hold a valid New York state hunting, fishing or trapping license at the time they are designated or appointed to such board and for each of the three years immediately preceding their designation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4576
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, MAYER -- 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 qual-
ifications for individuals designated or appointed to the conservation
fund advisory board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 11-0327 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 308 of the laws of
3 1994, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) Persons designated or appointed to the advisory board, excluding
5 ex officio members, shall have demonstrated a long-standing interest,
6 knowledge and experience in fish and wildlife management, including
7 hunting or fishing, [as] which may be evidenced [in part] by the holding
8 of a valid New York state hunting, fishing or trapping license at the
9 time they are designated or appointed to such board and for each of the
10 three years immediately preceding their designation or appointment to
11 such board. One member, who may not be an ex officio member, shall be
12 elected chairman of the advisory board by a majority vote of the members
13 of such board, excluding ex officio members.
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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