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Assembly Bill A4046

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Makes technical corrections to the environmental conservation law, providing for misdemeanor penalties for hunting, trapping, or fishing without a valid license

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2025-A4046 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1516
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §71-0921, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8640, S7660
2023-2024: A4345, S2178

2025-A4046 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes technical corrections to the environmental conservation law, providing for misdemeanor penalties for hunting, trapping, or fishing without a valid license.

2025-A4046 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4046
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   making  technical  corrections providing for misdemeanor penalties for
   hunting, trapping, or fishing without a valid license

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  14  of  section 71-0921 of the environmental
 conservation law, as added by chapter  532  of  the  laws  of  2019,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   14.  Violation  of  [subparagraph  one,  two or four of paragraph b of
 subdivision one] SUBDIVISION FOUR of section  11-0719  of  this  chapter
 involving the revocation and suspension of hunting, trapping, or fishing
 licenses.  Each such misdemeanor shall be punishable by imprisonment for
 not  more  than  ninety days, or by a fine of not less than five hundred
 dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment
 and fine.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01900-01-5

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