Bill Text: NY A10749 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Defines the term crossbow as a bow and string, either compound or recurve, that launches a bolt or arrow, mounted upon a stock with a trigger that holds the string and limbs under tension until released which shall have at least six inches of limb width.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-09 - referred to environmental conservation [A10749 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10749-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10749

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Byrnes) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          defining the term crossbow

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

     1    Section 1. Section 11-0103 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 33 to read as follows:
     3    33.  "Crossbow"  means  a  bow and string, either compound or recurve,
     4  that launches a bolt or arrow, mounted upon a stock with a trigger  that
     5  holds  the  string  and  limbs under tension until released.   Crossbows
     6  shall have a minimum limb width of six inches when uncocked and measured
     7  from the outer limb tips.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16767-01-0
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