A 8428: Extends provisions of law relating to the authority of the department of environmental conservation to fix by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish from December 31, 2025 until December 31, 2028.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8428 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2025 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. Section 11-1303 of the environmental conservation law, as 2 amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 § 11-1303. Open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish 5 fixed by regulation. 6 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department 7 may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-five] twenty- 8 eight, fix by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner 9 of taking of all species of fish in all waters of the state, except 10 marine fish named in subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 13-0339 of this 11 chapter and except to the extent that such open seasons, size and catch 12 limits and manner of taking are otherwise specifically provided for in 13 article 13 of this chapter. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09951-01-5