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Jan 07, 2015 |
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Senate Bill S516
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S516 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Environmental Conservation
- Law Section:
- Environmental Conservation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§11-0533, 71-0921 &71-0925, En Con L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014:
S6663
2017-2018: S390
2015-S516 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S516 REVISED MEMO 01/26/2015 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to guides and outfitters PURPOSE : The purpose of this bill is to amend the Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) to amend the definition of a guide, prohibit the act of guiding while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and increase penalty provisions related thereto. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1 of this bill would rename the title of ECL § 11-0533 as "Guides and Outfitters." It would amend ECL § 11-0533 (1) to clarify the definition of a guide as an individual who offers services for hire for recreational activities and to add kayaking to the list of services and activities. It would also add a definition of "outfitter" to mean any person soliciting to provide or providing guide services for compensation. The section would also amend ECL S 11-0533 (5) to provide that the fee for guide licenses shall not exceed two hundred dollars fox residents and establishes a new five hundred dollar fee for non-residents. New ECL S 11-0533 (7) would prohibit outfitters from providing unlicensed guides fox guiding services, and add a new requirement that guides and outfitters provide written disclosures
2015-S516 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 516 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- 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 guides and outfitters THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 11-0533 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 398 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: S 11-0533. [Licensing of guides] GUIDES AND OUTFITTERS. 1. DEFINITIONS. As used in this section[, the term "guide"]: A. "GUIDE" shall mean [a person] AN INDIVIDUAL who offers services for hire part or all of which includes directing, instructing, or aiding another in fishing, hunting, camping, hiking, white water canoeing, KAYAKING AND rafting, or rock and ice climbing. B. "OUTFITTER" SHALL MEAN ANY PERSON SOLICITING TO PROVIDE OR WHO PROVIDES, FOR COMPENSATION, A GUIDE. 2. All guides engaging in the business of guiding on all lands and waters of the state shall possess a license issued by the department, except for any [persons] INDIVIDUALS operating or assisting upon a public vessel for hire (passenger carrying vessels), licensed by the United States Coast Guard or New York state, upon the Atlantic Ocean and all other marine and coastal waters, tidal waters including the Hudson river up to the Troy barrier dam, St. Lawrence river, Great Lakes and the navigable portion of their tributaries, and other navigable waters, as determined by the department. 3. Except while guiding for the purposes of hunting and/or fishing, no license as defined in section 11-0701 OF THIS ARTICLE is required for such acts. 4. Employees of children's camps as defined in subdivision one of section one thousand four hundred of the public health law shall be EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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