Bill Text: NY S00307 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to promulgate standards authorizing hunting with a crossbow by July 1, 2011.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S00307 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00307-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          307
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         authorizing persons to hunt with a crossbow
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision  2  of  section  3-0301  of  the  environmental
    2  conservation  law  is  amended  by  adding a new paragraph dd to read as
    3  follows:
    4    DD. ON OR BEFORE JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN PROMULGATE  STANDARDS
    5  TO  ALLOW  FOR LEGALIZED CROSSBOW HUNTING THROUGHOUT THE STATE INCLUDING
    6  THE USE OF A CROSSBOW ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AS A LEGAL  HUNTING  IMPLEMENT
    7  DURING ANY DEER HUNTING SEASON.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE
    8  TERM "CROSSBOW" SHALL MEAN A BOW AND STRING (EITHER COMPOUND OR RECURVE)
    9  THAT  LAUNCHES  A  MINIMUM  FOURTEEN  INCH  ARROW (NOT INCLUDING POINT),
   10  MOUNTED UPON A STOCK WITH A TRIGGER THAT  HOLDS  THE  STRING  AND  LIMBS
   11  UNDER TENSION UNTIL RELEASED. THE TRIGGER UNIT MUST HAVE A WORKING SAFE-
   12  TY. THE MINIMUM LIMB WIDTH TO A CROSSBOW SHALL BE SEVENTEEN INCHES, HAVE
   13  A MINIMUM PEAK DRAW WEIGHT OF ONE HUNDRED POUNDS AND A MAXIMUM PEAK DRAW
   14  WEIGHT  OF  TWO HUNDRED POUNDS. THE MINIMUM OVERALL LENGTH OF A CROSSBOW
   15  FROM BUTT TO STOCK TO FRONT OF LIMBS SHALL BE TWENTY-FOUR INCHES.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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