Bill Text: NY S09438 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Allows the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in tracking big game that are dead, wounded or injured.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S09438 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09438-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9438

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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
          allowing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track dead, wounded or
          injured big game

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

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 11-0936 to read as follows:
     3  § 11-0936. Unmanned aerial vehicles.
     4    Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this chapter, the department
     5  may by regulation provide for the certification of unmanned aerial vehi-
     6  cles and may authorize the use  of  such  unmanned  aerial  vehicles  by
     7  persons  licensed  by  the department to track and find dead, wounded or
     8  injured big game, and for the certification of unmanned aerial  vehicles
     9  and  may  authorize  the use of such unmanned aerial vehicles by persons
    10  licensed by the department to track bear pursuant to subdivision one  of
    11  section 11-0521 of this article.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    14  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    15  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    16  on or before such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13824-01-3