Senate Bill S854

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of angler-caught fish

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S854 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-1319 & 11-1703, En Con L

2009-S854 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of angler-caught fish.

2009-S854 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S854 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   854

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
  vation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  prohibiting the sale of angler-caught fish

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2  of  section  11-1319  of  the  environmental
conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 193 of the laws of 1992, is
amended to read as follows:
  2. Sale.
  a. Trout,  including  rainbow  trout,  Atlantic  salmon,  black  bass,
walleye and muskellunge shall not be bought and sold.
  b.  Bait  fish  named  in  section  11-1315 shall not be sold for bait
except as provided in that section.
  c. [The] FISH OR PARTS THEREOF TAKEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRIVILEGES
OF A LICENSE ISSUED PURSUANT TO TITLE SEVEN OF THIS ARTICLE OR TAKEN  BY
A  MINOR  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  TWO OF SECTION 11-0707 SHALL NOT BE
BOUGHT OR SOLD.
  D. UNLESS OTHERWISE PROHIBITED BY THIS SUBDIVISION, THE following fish
may be bought and sold at any time: (1)  the  marine  species  named  in
section 13-0339 or in regulations of the department provided they are of
the  minimum  size limits stated in such section or in such regulations;
(2) fish [that may be] taken with nets [in] FROM the Hudson River,  Lake
Erie  and  Lake  Ontario  as authorized by regulations of the department
provided they are of the minimum size limits stated in such regulations;
AND (3) fish not specifically named in [paragraph d of this  subdivision
or  in]  section  13-0339,  11-1521  or 13-0347 or in regulation adopted
pursuant to section 11-1303[; (4) fish for which such regulations speci-
fy no minimum size limits and specify generally without exceptions, that
the open season is "any time"].

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06336-01-9
              

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