The New York State Senate

 
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                                   4565
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. 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  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
 sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed 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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