STATE OF NEW YORK
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6884
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 20, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
mental Conservation) -- 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
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 493 of the laws of
3 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 c. Until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-one] twenty-four,
5 such special season for the Northern Zone or any portion thereof may by
6 regulation be for up to a fourteen-day period preceding the regular open
7 season for deer stated in column two of the table set forth in subdivi-
8 sion 2 of this section or may be for up to a fourteen-day period follow-
9 ing such open season or any combination thereof, provided that a maximum
10 of sixteen days is not exceeded for any open area. Regulations estab-
11 lishing such Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big game season may
12 specify the taking of deer of either sex, antlerless deer only, legal
13 bucks only, or any combination thereof, and may require that persons
14 participating in the Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big game
15 season obtain a special permit from the department. When establishing
16 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.
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