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Senate Bill S7180

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to free sport fishing clinics

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2009-S7180 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-0305, En Con L

2009-S7180 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to free sport fishing clinics.

2009-S7180 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7180 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7180

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 18, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- 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 free
  sport fishing clinics

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  16  of  section 11-0305 of the environmental
conservation law, as added by chapter 292 of the laws of 1996 and renum-
bered by section 2 of part F of chapter 82  of  the  laws  of  2002,  is
amended to read as follows:
  16. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, to authorize no
more than four free sport fishing clinics in each year for each separate
administrative  region  of the department, provided however that nothing
in this subdivision shall preclude the department from conducting  addi-
tional  free sport fishing clinics during free sport fishing days desig-
nated by the  commissioner  pursuant  to  subdivision  fifteen  of  this
section.  A  free sport fishing clinic shall include, but not be limited
to, instruction provided by employees of the department in  recreational
angling,  including  its  benefits  and  values,  and  may  also include
instruction and other information relevant to an understanding of  fish-
eries  management, ethics and aquatic ecology and habitat. No license is
required to take fish by angling while participating in a fishing clinic
conducted by the department that has been designated by the commissioner
as a free sport fishing clinic. Such clinics shall be implemented  in  a
manner determined by the department to best provide public notice there-
of  and  to  maximize public participation therein, so as to promote the
recreational opportunities  afforded  by  sport  fishing.  FURTHER,  THE
COMMISSIONER  MAY  DESIGNATE ADDITIONAL FISHING EVENTS ORGANIZED THROUGH
THE DEPARTMENT THAT PROVIDE PHYSICAL AND/OR EMOTIONAL REHABILITATION FOR
VETERANS AND CURRENT ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  ARMED
FORCES. NO LICENSE IS REQUIRED BY THE VETERANS OR ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS TO
TAKE FISH BY ANGLING WHILE PARTICIPATING IN THESE EVENTS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16150-01-0

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