Bill Text: NY A05402 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of DEC to remove peregrine falcons from the endangered species list and to promulgate regulations for their use in falconry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A05402 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05402-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5402
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 8, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          falconry
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 11-1001 of the environmental conservation law, as
     2  added by chapter 825 of the laws of 1973, subdivision 1  as  amended  by
     3  chapter 325 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
     4  § 11-1001. Definitions.
     5    (1)  "Raptors" means all species of the orders Strigiformes and Falco-
     6  niformes and shall include but not be limited to  falcons,  hawks,  owls
     7  and  eagles  except  the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetor) and bald eagle
     8  (Haliaetus leucocephalus) and all birds listed as endangered or  threat-
     9  ened  pursuant  to  section  11-0535 of this article. However, [properly
    10  banded peregrine  falcons  which  are  the  progeny  of  birds  lawfully
    11  acquired  prior  to 1978 are] lawfully acquired golden eagles, peregrine
    12  falcons, and their progeny  are  raptors  within  the  meaning  of  this
    13  section.
    14    (2)  "Falconry"  means  the  sport  of  hunting  by the use of trained
    15  raptors and includes the training, feeding and handling  of  such  birds
    16  and their recapture after being released for hunting or training.
    17    § 2. 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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