Bill Text: NY S01093 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Excludes deer management professionals retained by the incorporated village of Lloyd Harbor, or the incorporated village of Upper Brookville from the hunting rifle ban on Long Island.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-02 - referred to environmental conservation [S01093 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01093-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1093--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          excluding deer management professionals retained by  the  incorporated
          village  of  Lloyd Harbor, or the incorporated village of Upper Brook-
          ville

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision 5 of section 11-0931 of the
     2  environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:
     3    a. No person shall use a rifle for hunting on Long Island or in  West-
     4  chester County.  If a person [be] is found carrying a rifle in the wood-
     5  lands  on  Long  Island  or  in  Westchester  County, that fact shall be
     6  presumptive evidence that he or she is illegally using it for hunting in
     7  that area[; but this]. This provision does not apply to: (1) members  of
     8  a  duly  organized  target shooting club carrying unloaded rifles to and
     9  from the target range; and (2) deer management professionals retained by
    10  the incorporated village of Lloyd Harbor, or the incorporated village of
    11  Upper Brookville, acting within the boundaries of the village.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03806-02-1