Bill Text: NY S02519 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2519 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the taking of non-native big game mammals in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to escape.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-20 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S02519 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02519-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2519
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  KRUEGER, HOYLMAN, MARTINEZ, SERRANO -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          prohibition on canned shoots
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1  of  section  11-1904  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  208  of the laws of 1999, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. No person who owns, operates or manages  a  facility  that  harbors
     5  non-native big game mammals shall knowingly permit:
     6    a.  The  taking on such premises by any person who pays [a] any fee to
     7  take a live non-native big game mammal by any of the following means:
     8    (1) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal  that  is
     9  tied or hobbled;
    10    (2)  the  shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is
    11  staked or attached to any object;
    12    (3) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal  that  is
    13  confined  in  a  box,  pen,  cage  or  similar container [of ten or less
    14  contiguous acres] or in a fenced or other area from which  there  is  no
    15  means for such mammal to escape;
    16    (4)  the  deliberate  release  of a non-native big game mammal that is
    17  confined in a box, pen, cage  or  similar  container  [of  ten  or  less
    18  contiguous  acres]  or  in a fenced or other area from which there is no
    19  means for such mammal to escape in the presence of any person who is, or
    20  will be, shooting or spearing such non-native big game mammal.
    21    b. For purposes of this section:
    22    (1) shooting shall mean the discharge of any type of  firearm  or  bow
    23  and arrow; [and]
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05043-01-9

        S. 2519                             2
     1    (2)  spearing shall mean the use of any hand or mechanically propelled
     2  single or multiple pronged pike, blade, or harpoon; and
     3    (3)  fee  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to, the payment of any
     4  compensation or remuneration for room,  board,  meals,  lodging  or  any
     5  other goods or services on the premises.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     7  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.