Senate Bill S1855

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to management of wildlife resources

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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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2021-S1855 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-0507, 11-0925, 11-0927, 11-0903 & 11-0905, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S842
2011-2012: S2650
2013-2014: S287
2015-2016: S3102
2017-2018: S1461
2019-2020: S1214

2021-S1855 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to management of wildlife resources; permits the release of certain ring-necked pheasant or quail birds without permit; adjusts the hunting season to August 16 through April 15, catch limits, and geographic areas for hunting certain species.

2021-S1855 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1855 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1855
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- 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
   management of wildlife resources
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3  of  section  11-0507  of  the  environmental
 conservation law is amended to read as follows:
   3.  No  person  shall willfully liberate within the state any wildlife
 except under permit from the department. The department may  issue  such
 permit  in its discretion, fix the terms thereof and revoke it at pleas-
 ure. These provisions do not apply to migratory game birds,  importation
 of  which  is governed by regulation of the department OR TO THE RELEASE
 OF RING-NECKED PHEASANT OR QUAIL DURING THE PERIOD AUGUST  SIXTEENTH  TO
 APRIL FIFTEENTH.
   §  2.  Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 11-0925 of the environ-
 mental conservation law, as added by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   b. The operator of a special dog training area may at any time  during
 the  year  train the operator's own dogs or the dogs of other persons on
 such area, and permit others to train dogs. The operator may hold  field
 trials  on wild game, or on liberated game, or on liberated artificially
 propagated game, or on led or confined game, or may  in  writing  permit
 others  to  hold  such  trials, under such conditions as shall be agreed
 upon by the operator and such other person; but no game shall  be  taken
 by  shooting  at  such  field  trial. No persons shall, on a special dog
 training area, train a dog, hold a field trial, enter accompanied  by  a
 dog,  or  permit  a  dog  of  which he is the owner or trainer to enter,
 except as provided in this section or in rules adopted pursuant  hereto.
 A  permit  from the department must be obtained before liberation of any
 wildlife, EXCEPT FOR THE RELEASE OF RING-NECKED PHEASANT OR QUAIL DURING
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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