Bill Text: NY S02210 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for the taking of Zenaida macroura, commonly known as the mourning dove, as a migratory bird.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S02210 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02210-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2210

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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
          including  the  mourning dove within the definition of "migratory game
          birds" and to allow for their taking

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 1 of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section
     2  11-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter  47
     3  of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  "Migratory  game birds" means the Anatidae or waterfowl, commonly
     5  known as geese, brant, swans and river  and  sea  ducks;  the  Rallidae,
     6  commonly  known  as  rails, American coots, mud hens and gallinules; the
     7  Limicolae or shorebirds, commonly  known  as  woodcock,  snipe,  plover,
     8  surfbirds,  sandpipers,  tattlers  and  curlews;  the Corvidae, commonly
     9  known as jays, crows and magpies; the Zenaida macroura,  commonly  known
    10  as the mourning dove.
    11    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately,
    12  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
    13  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
    14  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.
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