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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8428
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. MEEKS -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
ronmental 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 fish
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 11-1303 of the environmental conservation law, as
amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
follows:
§ 11-1303. Open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish
fixed by regulation.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-five] TWENTY-
EIGHT, fix by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner
of taking of all species of fish in all waters of the state, except
marine fish named in subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 13-0339 of this
chapter and except to the extent that such open seasons, size and catch
limits and manner of taking are otherwise specifically provided for in
article 13 of this chapter.
§ 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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