Assembly Bill A8721

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing for the hunting with crossbows by certain people during a special longbow hunting season

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A8721 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-0701, 11-0703 & 11-0901, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A527
2021-2022: A3550

2017-A8721 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows persons over the age of sixty-two, persons over the age of fourteen and physically disabled, or both to hunt with crossbows during a special longbow hunting season.

2017-A8721 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8721
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              October 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   allowing for the hunting with crossbows by  certain  people  during  a
   special longbow hunting season

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11-0701 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10.  A  SPECIAL  CROSSBOW PRIVILEGE WHEN INCLUDED ON A HUNTING LICENSE
 ENTITLES A HOLDER WHO IS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, FOURTEEN YEARS
 OF AGE OR OLDER AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED TO A  CERTAIN  DEGREE,  AS  SUCH
 TERM IS DEFINED BY REGULATION, OR BOTH TO HUNT WILD DEER AND BEAR WITH A
 CROSSBOW,  AS PROVIDED IN TITLE 9 OF THIS ARTICLE, IN A SPECIAL LONG BOW
 SEASON AS IF THEY WERE HUNTING WITH A LONGBOW AND A BOWHUNTING PRIVILEGE
 ON A HUNTING LICENSE ISSUED UNDER SUBDIVISION 3  OF  THIS  SECTION.  THE
 SPECIAL  CROSSBOW PRIVILEGE FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN SHALL BE
 SUBJECT TO THE SAME PROVISIONS OF SECTION 11-0929 AND SECTION 11-0713 OF
 THIS ARTICLE BASED ON THEIR AGE AS IF IT WAS A BOWHUNTING PRIVILEGE.
   § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 6 of section 11-0703 of  the  environ-
 mental conservation law, as amended by section 2 of part R of chapter 58
 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  Except  as provided in section 11-0707 and section 11-0709 of this
 title, no person shall (1) hunt wild deer or  bear  unless  such  person
 holds  and  is entitled to exercise the privileges of a hunting license,
 and meets the requirements of this article; (2) hunt wild deer  or  bear
 with  a  longbow  OR  CROSSBOW  in  a special longbow season unless such
 person holds and is entitled to exercise the  privileges  of  a  hunting
 license  with  a  bowhunting  privilege OR A SPECIAL CROSSBOW PRIVILEGE,
 RESPECTIVELY, and meets the requirements of this article;  or  (3)  hunt
 wild  deer  or  bear  with a muzzle-loading firearm in a special muzzle-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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