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