Bill Text: NY S05148 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5148 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to organize, sponsor, conduct, promote, or participate in any contest, competition, tournament or derby where the objective of such contest or competition is to take wildlife.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-06 - PRINT NUMBER 5148A [S05148 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5148
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- 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
          making contests and competitions to take wildlife unlawful
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 14, 15, and 16 of section 11-0901 of the envi-
     2  ronmental conservation law, subdivision 14 as renumbered by chapter  486
     3  of  the  laws  of 1985, are renumbered subdivisions 15, 16, and 17 and a
     4  new subdivision 14 is added to read as follows:
     5    14. It shall be unlawful for any person to organize, conduct,  promote
     6  or participate in any contest or competition where the objective of such
     7  contest  or  competition is to take the greatest number of wildlife. Any
     8  wildlife injured during the course of a contest or competition conducted
     9  in violation of this subdivision shall  be  transported  to  a  licensed
    10  wildlife  rehabilitator or veterinarian for treatment or humane euthana-
    11  sia. The remains of any wildlife killed during the course of  a  contest
    12  or  competition  conducted  in  violation  of  this subdivision shall be
    13  forfeited by every organizer, promoter, participant or any other  person
    14  conducting  or  involved in such contest or competition, and the remains
    15  of such wildlife shall become the property of the department.
    16    § 2. Section 71-0921 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
    17  by adding a new subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
    18    10-a.  Violations  of  subdivision fourteen of section 11-0901 of this
    19  chapter involving unlawful contests and competitions to  take  wildlife.
    20  Each  such  misdemeanor shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more
    21  than one year or by a fine of not less than  five  hundred  dollars  nor
    22  more than two thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment and fine.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    24  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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