Bill Text: NY A04372 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes restrictions on crossbow size and draw weight when used for hunting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04372-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4372

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          removing  restrictions  on crossbow size and draw weight when used for
          hunting

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 9 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section
     2  11-0901 of the environmental conservation law, as added by section 6  of
     3  part  EE  of  chapter  55  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (9) with a crossbow unless [such crossbow shall consist of a  bow  and
     6  string,  either  compound  or  recurve, that launches a minimum fourteen
     7  inch bolt, not including point, mounted upon a stock with a trigger that
     8  holds the string and limbs under tension until released. The] the  trig-
     9  ger unit of such crossbow [must have] has a working safety. [The minimum
    10  limb  width  of  such crossbow shall be seventeen inches, have a minimum
    11  peak draw weight of one hundred pounds and a maximum peak draw weight of
    12  two hundred pounds. The minimum overall length  of  such  crossbow  from
    13  buttstock to front of limbs shall be twenty-four inches.]
    14    § 2. Subparagraph 9 of paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 11-0901
    15  of  the environmental conservation law, as added by section 7 of part EE
    16  of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
    17    (9) with a crossbow unless [such crossbow shall consist of a  bow  and
    18  string,  either  compound  or  recurve, that launches a minimum fourteen
    19  inch bolt, not including point, mounted upon a stock with a trigger that
    20  holds the string and limbs under tension until released. The] the  trig-
    21  ger unit of such crossbow [must have] has a working safety. [The minimum
    22  limb  width  of  such crossbow shall be seventeen inches, have a minimum
    23  peak draw weight of one hundred pounds and a maximum peak draw weight of
    24  two hundred pounds. The minimum overall length  of  such  crossbow  from
    25  buttstock to front of limbs shall be twenty-four inches.]
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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