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Assembly Bill A10633

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to deer management permits; repealer

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2025-A10633 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9462
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0913, rpld §11-0913 sub 9, En Con L

2025-A10633 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the issuance of deer management permits in the northern zone of the state.

2025-A10633 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10633
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HUNTER, CASHMAN -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to  deer
   management  permits;  and  to  repeal  certain  provisions of such law
   relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 1 and subdivision 8 of section
 11-0913 of the environmental conservation law, paragraph a  of  subdivi-
 sion  1  as amended by chapter 183 of the laws of 2024 and subdivision 8
 as amended by chapter 267 of the laws of 1978, are amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   a. Until December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-seven, whenever in
 its  opinion  the population of deer in any area of the state [except in
 the northern zone] is such that additional harvest of deer is reasonably
 necessary to properly manage the deer herd in the state in balance  with
 the  available  deer  range  and natural food supply, the department may
 provide by regulation for issuance of deer management  permits,  permit-
 ting  the taking of one deer for the permit, in addition to the limit of
 one deer that may otherwise be taken by one person in a license year.
   8. [Except with  respect  to  deer  management  unit  thirty-four  the
 provision  of this section shall not apply to the "Northern Zone" of the
 state as defined in subdivision sixteen of section 11-0103 of this chap-
 ter] THE DEPARTMENT IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO PROMULGATE  ANY  RULES
 OR REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBE AREAS OF LAND SET
 FORTH IN THIS SECTION.
   §  2.  Subdivision 9 of section 11-0913 of the environmental conserva-
 tion law is REPEALED.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15133-01-6

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