Bill Text: NY A07387 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to adopt regulations for hunting in the northern zone.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-01 - signed chap.205 [A07387 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07387-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7387

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
          ronmental Conservation) -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          extending the authority of the department of  environmental  conserva-
          tion to adopt regulations for hunting in the northern zone

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 8  of  section  11-0907  of  the
     2  environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 493 of the laws of
     3  2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    c. Until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-one] twenty-four,
     5  such  special season for the Northern Zone or any portion thereof may by
     6  regulation be for up to a fourteen-day period preceding the regular open
     7  season for deer stated in column two of the table set forth in  subdivi-
     8  sion 2 of this section or may be for up to a fourteen-day period follow-
     9  ing such open season or any combination thereof, provided that a maximum
    10  of  sixteen  days  is not exceeded for any open area. Regulations estab-
    11  lishing such Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big  game  season  may
    12  specify  the  taking  of deer of either sex, antlerless deer only, legal
    13  bucks only, or any combination thereof, and  may  require  that  persons
    14  participating  in  the  Northern  Zone  muzzle-loading  firearm big game
    15  season obtain a special permit from the  department.  When  establishing
    16  these  regulations,  the  department  must consider the condition of the
    17  herd and communities', property owners',  hunters'  and  other  relevant
    18  interests.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09543-01-1