Bill Text: NY A01468 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows for prosecution under criminal trespass in the third degree, a class B misdemeanor, hunting, fishing or trapping on real property with notice against trespass.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A01468 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01468-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1468
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to hunting, fishing or trap-
          ping on real property with notice against trespass
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  (g)  of  section 140.10 of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new  subdi-
     3  vision (h) is added to read as follows:
     4    (g)  where  the property consists of a right-of-way or yard of a rail-
     5  road or rapid transit railroad which has been designated  and  conspicu-
     6  ously posted as a no-trespass railroad zone[.]; or
     7    (h)  while hunting, fishing or trapping: (i) when notice against tres-
     8  pass has been personally communicated to the trespasser by the owner  of
     9  such  real  property  or a person authorized by such owner; or (ii) when
    10  the real property has been conspicuously posted as a no-trespass area.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    12  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02975-01-9
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