Bill Text: NY A07878 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the distance from a dwelling house, farm building, school building, school playground, occupied factory or church in which a firearm or long bow may be discharged from 500 feet to 1000 feet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-08-26 - enacting clause stricken [A07878 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07878-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7878
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 20, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Environmental Conservation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
         prohibitions on the use of firearms near a dwelling
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section
    2  11-0931 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 483
    3  of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (2) discharge a firearm, crossbow or long bow  within  [five  hundred]
    5  ONE THOUSAND feet from a dwelling house, farm building or farm structure
    6  actually  occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occu-
    7  pied factory or church;
    8    S 2. Subparagraphs 1 and 4 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of  section
    9  11-0931 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 483
   10  of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as follows:
   11    (1) The owner or lessee of the dwelling house, or members of his imme-
   12  diate  family  actually  residing therein, or a person in his employ, or
   13  the guest of the owner or lessee of the dwelling house acting  with  the
   14  consent  of  said owner or lessee, provided however, that nothing herein
   15  shall be deemed to authorize such persons to discharge a firearm, cross-
   16  bow or longbow within [five hundred] ONE  THOUSAND  feet  of  any  other
   17  dwelling  house,  or a farm building or farm structure actually occupied
   18  or used, or a school building  or  playground  or  occupied  factory  or
   19  church;
   20    (4) The discharge of a shotgun over water by a person hunting migrato-
   21  ry  game  birds  if  no dwelling house or public structure, livestock or
   22  person is situated in the line of discharge less than [five hundred] ONE
   23  THOUSAND feet from the point of discharge.
   24    S 3. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 11-0931
   25  of the environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 7878                             2
    1    (2) discharge a firearm or long bow within [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND
    2  feet from a dwelling house, farm building  or  farm  structure  actually
    3  occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occupied facto-
    4  ry or church;
    5    S  4. Subparagraphs 1 and 4 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section
    6  11-0931 of the environmental conservation law  is  amended  to  read  as
    7  follows:
    8    (1) The owner or lessee of the dwelling house, or members of his imme-
    9  diate  family  actually  residing therein, or a person in his employ, or
   10  the guest of the owner or lessee of the dwelling house acting  with  the
   11  consent  of  said owner or lessee, provided however, that nothing herein
   12  shall be deemed to authorize such persons  to  discharge  a  firearm  or
   13  longbow  within  [five  hundred] ONE THOUSAND feet of any other dwelling
   14  house, or a farm building or farm structure actually occupied  or  used,
   15  or a school building or playground or occupied factory or church;
   16    (4) The discharge of a shotgun over water by a person hunting migrato-
   17  ry  game  birds  if  no dwelling house or public structure, livestock or
   18  person is situated in the line of discharge less than [five hundred] ONE
   19  THOUSAND feet from the point of discharge.
   20    S 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
   21  the  amendments to subdivision 4 of section 11-0931 of the environmental
   22  conservation law made by sections one and  two  of  this  act  shall  be
   23  subject  to the expiration and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to
   24  section 17 of chapter 483 of the laws of 2010,  as  amended,  when  upon
   25  such  date  the  provisions of sections three and four of this act shall
   26  take effect.