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Assembly Bill A9206

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases the distance from a dwelling in which a firearm or long bow may be discharged

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2009-A9206 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-0931, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A7878

2009-A9206 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the distance from a dwelling house, farm building, school building, school playground, occupied factory or church in which a firearm or long bow may be discharged from 500 feet to 1000 feet.

2009-A9206 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A9206 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9206

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            October 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
  prohibitions on the use of firearms near a dwelling

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section
11-0931 of the environmental conservation law  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (2) discharge a firearm or long bow within [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND
feet  from  a  dwelling  house, farm building or farm structure actually
occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occupied facto-
ry or church;
  S 2. Subparagraphs 1 and 4 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of  section
11-0931  of  the  environmental  conservation law are amended to read as
follows:
  (1) The owner or lessee of the dwelling house, or members of his imme-
diate family actually residing therein, or a person in  his  employ,  or
the  guest  of the owner or lessee of the dwelling house acting with the
consent of said owner or lessee, provided however, that  nothing  herein
shall  be  deemed  to  authorize  such persons to discharge a firearm or
longbow within [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND feet of  any  other  dwelling
house,  or  a farm building or farm structure actually occupied or used,
or a school building or playground or occupied factory or church;
  (4) The discharge of a shotgun over water by a person hunting migrato-
ry game birds if no dwelling house or  public  structure,  livestock  or
person is situated in the line of discharge less than [five hundred] ONE
THOUSAND feet from the point of discharge.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14872-01-9

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