What's happening
This bill requires the Department of Environmental Conservation to consult with local governments before closing municipal property to horseshoe crab harvesting.
Why it matters
Enhances Local Input. By requiring the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to consult (rather than just "cooperate") with local governments before closing municipal property to horseshoe crab harvesting, the bill strengthens the role of towns, villages, and counties in resource management decisions that directly affect their areas.
Potentially Affects Conservation Outcomes. The change from "cooperate" to "consult" could alter how much influence local governments have in the decision-making process, possibly making it easier or harder to enact harvest closures depending on how consultation is interpreted and implemented.
Impacts Local Economies and Stakeholders. Municipal decisions about horseshoe crab harvesting can affect local commercial and recreational interests, including fisheries, wildlife, and tourism, so this bill could have direct economic and ecological implications for affected communities.
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Consult Towns on Crab Harvests
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History
- Substituted by S7297
- Advanced to third reading cal.613
- Reported
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Let Towns Close Crab Harvests
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Kenneth P. LaValle
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8918
IN ASSEMBLY
January 8, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the taking of crabs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 13-0331 of the environmental conservation law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the environmental conservation law relating to the taking of crabs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers A. 8184-A and S. 6682, is amended to read as follows:
8. The department shall, when adopting regulation measures for the management of horseshoe crabs (Limulus sp.) pursuant to subdivision seven of this section, [cooperate] consult with any town, village or county that requests any municipal property be subject to a harvest closure.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the environmental conservation law relating to the the taking of crabs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers A. 8184-A and S. 6682, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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