Bill Text: NY S00998 | 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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00998 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00998-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           998
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- 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
          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.
                                                                   LBD03311-02-7