A03330 Summary:
| BILL NO | A03330 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Bores |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §§11-1703 & 71-0921, En Con L | |
| Prohibits the importation of live bait fish; provides penalties for failure to comply with such prohibition. | |
A03330 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3330 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the importation of bait fish into the state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 11-1703 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. No person shall import into the state any live bait fish as defined 4 in subdivision one of section 11-1315 of this article, for the use of 5 bait fishing in inland waters. 6 § 2. Section 71-0921 of the environmental conservation law is amended 7 by adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows: 8 15. Any person who violates subdivision eight of section 11-1703 of 9 this chapter shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and, upon 10 conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed twenty 11 dollars for each fish unlawfully possessed. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04227-01-5