Bill Text: NY S06324 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the town of Smithtown, in the county of Suffolk to make ordinances prohibiting the discharge of longbows and crossbows in areas in which such activity may be hazardous to the general public or nearby residents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S06324 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06324-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6324

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 14, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to  authorizing  the  town  of
          Smithtown to make ordinances regarding longbows and crossbows

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 130 of the town law is amended by  adding  two  new
     2  subdivisions 30 and 31 to read as follows:
     3    30.  Longbows.  In  the  town  of  Smithtown, in the county of Suffolk
     4  prohibiting the discharge of longbows in areas in  which  such  activity
     5  may  be hazardous to the general public or nearby residents, and provid-
     6  ing for the posting of such areas with signs giving notice of such regu-
     7  lations, which ordinances, rules and regulations may be  more,  but  not
     8  less,  restrictive than any other provision of law. Thirty days prior to
     9  the adoption of any ordinance changing the one hundred fifty  foot  rule
    10  established  pursuant  to section 11-0931 of the environmental conserva-
    11  tion law, notice must be sent to the regional  supervisor  of  fish  and
    12  game  of  the  department of environmental conservation, notifying  such
    13  regional supervisor of such intention.
    14    31. Crossbows. In the town of Smithtown,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk
    15  prohibiting  the  discharge of crossbows in areas in which such activity
    16  may be hazardous to the general public or nearby residents, and  provid-
    17  ing for the posting of such areas with signs giving notice of such regu-
    18  lations,  which  ordinances,  rules and regulations may be more, but not
    19  less, restrictive than any other provision of law.  Thirty days prior to
    20  the adoption of any ordinance changing the two hundred fifty  foot  rule
    21  established  pursuant  to section 11-0931 of the environmental conserva-
    22  tion law, notice must be sent to the regional  supervisor  of  fish  and
    23  game  of  the  department  of environmental conservation, notifying such
    24  regional supervisor of such intention.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10819-01-3