The New York State Senate

 
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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 19, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  B. MILLER  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   including  the  mourning dove within the definition of "migratory game
   birds" and to allow for their taking

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph 1 of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section
 11-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter  47
 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  "Migratory  game birds" means the Anatidae or waterfowl, commonly
 known as geese, brant, swans and river  and  sea  ducks;  the  Rallidae,
 commonly  known  as  rails, American coots, mud hens and gallinules; the
 Limicolae or shorebirds, commonly  known  as  woodcock,  snipe,  plover,
 surfbirds,  sandpipers,  tattlers  and  curlews;  the Corvidae, commonly
 known as jays, crows and magpies; THE ZENAIDA MACROURA,  COMMONLY  KNOWN
 AS THE MOURNING DOVE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately,
 the commissioner of  environmental  conservation  shall  promulgate  any
 rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this act on or
 before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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