Bill Text: NY A07584 | 2015-2016 | 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: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-16 - substituted by s5137 [A07584 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07584-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7584
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 19, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER,  ENGLEBRIGHT  -- (at request of the
         Department of Environmental 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 424 of the laws of
    3  2011, is amended to read as follows:
    4    c. Until [October first] DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, two thousand [fifteen]
    5  EIGHTEEN, such special season for the Northern Zone or any portion ther-
    6  eof may by regulation be for up to a fourteen-day period  preceding  the
    7  regular open season for deer stated in column two of the table set forth
    8  in  subdivision  2  of  this  section or may be for up to a fourteen-day
    9  period following such open season or any combination  thereof,  provided
   10  that  a maximum of sixteen days is not exceeded for any open area. Regu-
   11  lations establishing such Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big  game
   12  season  may  specify  the  taking of deer of either sex, antlerless deer
   13  only, legal bucks only, or any combination thereof, and may require that
   14  persons participating in the Northern Zone  muzzle-loading  firearm  big
   15  game season obtain a special permit from the department. When establish-
   16  ing these regulations, the department must consider the condition of the
   17  herd  and  communities',  property  owners', hunters' and other relevant
   18  interests.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09472-01-5