Assembly Bill A5716

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5716

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
  allowing the use of rifles for hunting in Rockland county

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

  Section  1.    Item  (i)  of  paragraph  a of subdivision 2 of section
11-0907 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by section  14
of  part  EE  of  chapter  55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
follows:

(i) The counties of       Deer, the first Monday   Pistol, shotgun,
  Allegany, Cattaraugus,  after November 15        crossbow,
  Cayuga, Chautauqua      through first Tuesday    muzzle loading
  except that portion     after December 7         firearm, rifle or
  of the county north                              long bow only
  of route 20, Chemung,
  Chenango, Herkimer,
  Madison, Montgomery,
  Oneida, Oswego,
  Otsego, ROCKLAND,
  Schoharie, Schuyler,
  Steuben, Tioga,
  Wyoming and Yates
  and that portion of
  the county of
  Broome east of the
  Susquehanna river


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  S 2. Item (i) of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of  section  11-0907  of
the  environmental conservation law, as amended by section 15 of part EE
of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:

(i) The counties of       Deer and bear, the       Pistol, shotgun,
  Allegany, Cattaraugus,  first Monday after       crossbow,
  Chautauqua except       November 15 through      muzzle loading
  that portion of the     first Tuesday after      firearm, rifle or
  county north of route   December 7               long bow only
  20, Chenango,
  Herkimer, Montgomery,
  Oneida, Oswego,
  Otsego, ROCKLAND,
  Schoharie, Tioga
  and Wyoming
  and that portion
  of the county
  of Broome east of the
  Susquehanna river
  S  3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
ments to item (i) of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 11-0907  of
the environmental conservation law made by section one of this act shall
be subject to the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to
chapter  600  of the laws of 1993, when upon such date the provisions of
section two of this act shall take effect.