Bill Text: NY A01274 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows for the taking of Zenaida macroura, commonly known as the mourning dove, as a migratory bird.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-22 - enacting clause stricken [A01274 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01274-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1274 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BRABENEC, JONES, B. MILLER, PALUMBO, STEC, STIRPE, WOERNER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred 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 commissioner of environmental conservation shall promulgate any 13 rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on or 14 before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02771-01-9
