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Assembly Bill A7479

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows for the taking of deer with a crossbow in Suffolk county

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2023-A7479 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0907, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A5210

2023-A7479 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for the taking of deer with a crossbow in Suffolk county.

2023-A7479 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7479
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   allowing for the taking of deer with a crossbow in Suffolk county
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Item (h) of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 11-0907
 of  the environmental conservation law, as amended by section 1 of chap-
 ter 104 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
 
 (h) Suffolk County        Deer of either sex       CROSSBOW OR
                                                    long bow [only]
                           Second Monday in
                           November through
                           March thirty-first
   § 2. Item (h) of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of  section  11-0907  of
 the  environmental  conservation law, as amended by section 2 of chapter
 104 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
 
 (h) Suffolk County        Deer of either sex       CROSSBOW OR
                                                    long bow [only]
                           Second Monday in
                           November through
                           March thirty-first
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to  item (h) 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 item
 pursuant to section 13 of chapter 600 of the laws of 1993,  as  amended,
 when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take
 effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10449-01-3

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