Bill Text: NY A10272 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: (Passed) 2024-08-28 - signed chap.259 [A10272 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A10272-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10272 IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2024 ___________ 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