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Assembly Bill A7878

2011-2012 Legislative Session

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

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2011-A7878 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-0931, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A9206

2011-A7878 (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.

2011-A7878 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7878

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 20, 2011
                               ___________

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, as amended by chapter 483
of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
  (2) discharge a firearm, crossbow 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 occu-
pied factory or church;
  S 2. Subparagraphs 1 and 4 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of  section
11-0931 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 483
of the laws of 2010, 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, cross-
bow 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. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 11-0931
of the environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11604-01-1

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