Bill Text: NY S06719 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S06719 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06719-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6719

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- 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
          excluding  deer  management professionals retained by the incorporated
          village of Lloyd Harbor

          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 acting within the boundaries of
    11  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.
                                                                   LBD06916-02-3
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