Bill Text: NY A04565 | 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 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04565 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04565-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4565

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- 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  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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