Senate Bill S6719

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Excludes deer management professionals retained by the incorporated village of Lloyd Harbor from the hunting rifle ban on Long Island

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Current 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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2023-S6719 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7149
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0931, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8065
2021-2022: S1093, A7641

2023-S6719 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes deer management professionals retained by the incorporated village of Lloyd Harbor from the hunting rifle ban on Long Island.

2023-S6719 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6719 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6719
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- 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
   excluding  deer  management professionals retained by the incorporated
   village of Lloyd Harbor

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision 5 of section 11-0931 of the
 environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:
   a. No person shall use a rifle for hunting on Long Island or in  West-
 chester County.  If a person [be] IS found carrying a rifle in the wood-
 lands  on  Long  Island  or  in  Westchester  County, that fact shall be
 presumptive evidence that he OR SHE is illegally using it for hunting in
 that area[; but this]. THIS provision does not apply to: (1) members  of
 a  duly  organized  target shooting club carrying unloaded rifles to and
 from the target range; AND (2) DEER MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS RETAINED BY
 THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF LLOYD HARBOR ACTING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF
 THE VILLAGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06916-02-3

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