Bill Text: NY A06815 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-01 - print number 6815a [A06815 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6815

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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