Senate Bill S5486

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to taking big and small game by crossbow in Wyoming county

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee

  • 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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2019-S5486 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7666
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-0907 & 11-0933, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S2643, A9914
2023-2024: S422, A4894
2025-2026: A2550

2019-S5486 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of environmental conservation to authorize the use of a crossbow for the taking of big and small game by any licensed person for use during the entirety of the archery-only season within Wyoming county.

2019-S5486 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5486 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5486
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 2, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   taking big and small game by crossbow in Wyoming county
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 10 of  section  11-0907  of  the  environmental
 conservation law, as added by section 14 of part EE of chapter 55 of the
 laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   10.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  this  chapter,  or any prior
 notwithstanding language in this article, the department may,  by  regu-
 lation, authorize the taking of big game by the use of a crossbow by any
 licensed  person  in any big game season in any area designated in items
 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (i), (k) and (l) of paragraph a of  subdi-
 vision  two  of  this  section  in  which  a shotgun or muzzle loader is
 permitted provided however, that any crossbow use during an archery-only
 season shall only take place during the last fourteen  consecutive  days
 of  such  archery-only  season  in  the southern zone provided that such
 archery-only season shall consist of  not  less  than  forty-five  days,
 EXCEPT  THAT THE DEPARTMENT SHALL AUTHORIZE THE USE OF SUCH CROSSBOW FOR
 THE TAKING OF BIG GAME BY ANY LICENSED PERSON FOR USE DURING THE ENTIRE-
 TY OF THE ARCHERY-ONLY SEASON WITHIN WYOMING COUNTY, and only during the
 last ten consecutive days of any archery-only  season  in  the  northern
 zone  provided  that  such  archery-only season shall consist of no less
 than twenty-three days. Any muzzle loading season which  occurs  at  the
 same  time  as a special archery season may only occur during times when
 crossbows are authorized to be used.
   § 2. Section 11-0933 of the environmental conservation law,  as  added
 by  section  22 of part EE of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended
 to read as follows:
 § 11-0933. Taking small game by crossbow.

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

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