STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 18, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Glick) --
(at request of the Department of Environmental Conservation) -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
extending the authority of the department of environmental conserva-
tion to manage American lobster; and to amend chapter 305 of the laws
of 2013 amending the environmental conservation law, relating to the
management of American lobster, in relation to the effectiveness ther-
eof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 16 of section 13-0329 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 122 of the laws of 2021, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 16. The department may, until December thirty-first, two thousand
5 [twenty-four] twenty-seven, adopt regulations for Atlantic States Marine
6 Fisheries Commission Areas One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Outer Cape
7 Cod, to implement conservation measures that affect landings of
8 lobsters, pursuant to the recommendations of the respective Area's
9 Lobster Conservation Management Team as required by the Interstate Fish-
10 ery Management Plan for American Lobster adopted by the Atlantic States
11 Marine Fisheries Commission.
12 § 2. Section 6 of chapter 305 of the laws of 2013, amending the envi-
13 ronmental conservation law, relating to the management of American
14 lobster, as amended by chapter 122 of the laws of 2021, is amended to
15 read as follows:
16 § 6. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law; provided that subdivision 17 of section 13-0329 of
18 the environmental conservation law, as added by section two of this act,
19 shall expire and be deemed repealed December 31, [2024] 2027.
20 § 3. 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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