Bill Text: NY S06221 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that the open season for hunting coyotes shall be all year long, provided that the county legislature has a resolution authorizing such hunting within the county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S06221 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06221-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6221
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 6, 2016
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- 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
         establishing  the  open  season  for hunting coyote in certain circum-
         stances
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  o  of  subdivision 2 of section 11-0905 of the
    2  environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 911 of the laws of
    3  1990, is amended to read as follows:
    4    o. Coyote       [Fixed annually                 Fixed annually
    5                     by regulation]                 by regulation
    6                    AFTER DECEMBER
    7                    31, 2017, THE OPEN
    8                    SEASON FOR THESE
    9                    SPECIES SHALL BE ALL
   10                    YEAR, PROVIDED, THAT
   11                    THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE
   12                    PASSES A RESOLUTION
   13                    AUTHORIZING SUCH HUNTING
   14                    WITHIN THE COUNTY.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13076-02-5
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