Bill Text: NY S05802 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for the hunting of deer by individuals age sixty and older with a crossbow in a special archery season.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - referred to environmental conservation [S05802 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05802-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5802

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 16, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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
          hunting of deer with a crossbow

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of subdivision 3 of section  11-0701  of
     2  the  environmental conservation law, as amended by section 1-a of Part R
     3  of chapter 58 of the laws of 2013, are amended and a new paragraph 4  is
     4  added to read as follows:
     5    (2)  who  is eighteen years of age or older to hunt wild deer and bear
     6  with a longbow, as provided in title 9 of this  article,  in  a  special
     7  longbow season;[and]
     8    (3)  who  is  sixteen  or  seventeen years of age to exercise the same
     9  privileges subject to the provisions of section 11-0929 and  subdivision
    10  3 of section 11-0713 of this article[.] ;and
    11    (4)  who  is sixty years of age or older to hunt deer with a crossbow,
    12  as provided in title nine of this article, in a special archery  season.
    13  The  department  shall adopt regulations to allow the hunting of deer by
    14  the use of a crossbow to any person sixty years of age  or  older  in  a
    15  special  archery  season, subject to such restrictions as the department
    16  may adopt by regulation. The department shall adopt regulations  requir-
    17  ing  documentation  to  establish that an applicant is eligible to use a
    18  crossbow pursuant to this paragraph.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.  Effective  immediately,
    20  the  addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    21  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    22  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10308-01-3