Bill Text: NY A10272 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to adopt regulations for hunting in the northern zone to December 31, 2027.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-28 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A10272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10272-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10272

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 15, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jones) --
          (at request of the Department of Environmental Conservation)  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          extending the authority of the department of  environmental  conserva-
          tion to adopt regulations for hunting in the northern zone

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 8  of  section  11-0907  of  the
     2  environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 205 of the laws of
     3  2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    c. Until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-four] twenty-sev-
     5  en, such special season for the Northern Zone or any portion thereof may
     6  by  regulation  be for up to a fourteen-day period preceding the regular
     7  open season for deer stated in column two of  the  table  set  forth  in
     8  subdivision  2 of this section or may be for up to a fourteen-day period
     9  following such open season or any combination thereof, provided  that  a
    10  maximum  of  sixteen days is not exceeded for any open area. Regulations
    11  establishing such Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big  game  season
    12  may  specify  the  taking  of  deer of either sex, antlerless deer only,
    13  legal bucks only, or any  combination  thereof,  and  may  require  that
    14  persons  participating  in  the Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big
    15  game season obtain a special permit from the department. When establish-
    16  ing these regulations, the department must consider the condition of the
    17  herd and communities', property owners',  hunters'  and  other  relevant
    18  interests.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14171-01-4