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Assembly Bill A1998

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Defines the term public highway for purposes of unlawfully feeding deer

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2009-A1998 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-0505, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A7724

2009-A1998 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines the term "public highway" for purposes of unlawfully feeding deer; defines such term as any highway, road, street, avenue, public place, public driveway or any other public right-of-way where the public has a general right of passage with a motor vehicle; provides that a public highway shall not include private driveways.

2009-A1998 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1998

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 14, 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
  defining the term public highway for purposes  of  unlawfully  feeding
  deer

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 8  of  section  11-0505  of  the  environmental
conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  381  of the laws of 1997, is
amended to read as follows:
  8. No person shall place, give, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter
any substance with the intent to attract or entice deer to  feed  within
three hundred feet of a public highway.  Normal agricultural practice of
planting, cultivating or harvesting and the feeding of deer held captive
for  agricultural  purposes  or the feeding of deer held captive in zoos
and wildlife parks shall not be considered attracting or  enticing  deer
to feed for the purposes of this section.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVI-
SION,  THE  TERM  "PUBLIC HIGHWAY" SHALL MEAN ANY HIGHWAY, ROAD, STREET,
AVENUE, PUBLIC PLACE, PUBLIC DRIVEWAY OR ANY OTHER  PUBLIC  RIGHT-OF-WAY
WHERE  THE  PUBLIC  HAS A GENERAL RIGHT OF PASSAGE WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE.
PUBLIC HIGHWAY SHALL NOT INCLUDE PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03189-01-9

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