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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5929
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 12, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. VENDITTO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          extending  the  authority of the department of environmental conserva-
          tion to manage crabs
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  13-0331 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 289 of  the  laws  of  2011,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    7.  The  department  may,  until  December  thirty-first, two thousand
     5  [fifteen] seventeen, fix by regulation measures for  the  management  of
     6  crabs  of  any  kind  including horseshoe crabs (Limulus sp.), including
     7  size limits, catch and  possession  limits,  open  and  closed  seasons,
     8  closed areas, restrictions on the manner of taking and landing, require-
     9  ments  for permits and eligibility therefor, recordkeeping requirements,
    10  requirements on the amount and type of  fishing  effort  and  gear,  and
    11  requirements  relating  to transportation, possession and sale, provided
    12  that such regulations are no  less  restrictive  than  requirements  set
    13  forth  in  this  chapter  and provided further that such regulations are
    14  consistent  with  the  compliance  requirements  of  applicable  fishery
    15  management plans adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commis-
    16  sion  and with applicable provisions of fishery management plans adopted
    17  pursuant to the Federal Fishery  Conservation  and  Management  Act  (16
    18  U.S.C. § 1800 et seq.).
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11631-02-5