Senate Bill S7177

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing the marine mammal and sea turtle protection area; repealer

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  • 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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2019-S7177 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8962
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-2050, rpld §11-2052, En Con L (as proposed in S.5871 & A.6520)

2019-S7177 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the marine mammal and sea turtle protection area.

2019-S7177 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7177 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7177
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   establishing  the marine mammal and sea turtle protection area; and to
   repeal certain provisions of such law related thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  11-2050 of the environmental
 conservation law, as added by a chapter of the laws  of  2019,  amending
 the  environmental  conservation law relating to establishing the marine
 mammal and sea turtle protection area, as proposed in legislative  bills
 numbers S. 5871 and A. 6520, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  There shall be created the marine mammal and sea turtle protection
 area consisting of the waters in the area from mean high  water  seaward
 fifteen  hundred  feet,  except  further seaward in shallow areas to the
 outermost limit of waters fifteen feet in  depth,  around  Plum  Island,
 Great  Gull  Island  and  Little  Gull Island. [Such boundaries shall be
 described and depicted upon a map and a copy of any and all  such  docu-
 ments shall be forwarded to the commissioner for inventory, research and
 reference  purposes  for  the  general public.] Such protection area may
 also be designated as a New York state bird conservation  area  pursuant
 to section 11-2001 of this article.
   §  2.  Section 11-2052 of the environmental conservation law, as added
 by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the  environmental  conserva-
 tion  law  relating  to  establishing  the  marine mammal and sea turtle
 protection area, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5871 and A.
 6520, is REPEALED.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2019, amending the environmental
 conservation law relating to establishing  the  marine  mammal  and  sea
 turtle protection area, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5871
 and A.  6520, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10153-03-0

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