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Assembly Bill A5576

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Defines the term crossbow

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2025-A5576 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0103, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10749
2021-2022: A1102
2023-2024: A2491

2025-A5576 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines the term crossbow as a bow and string, either compound or recurve, that launches a bolt or arrow, mounted upon a stock with a trigger that holds the string and limbs under tension until released which shall have at least six inches of limb width.

2025-A5576 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5576
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BAILEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   defining the term crossbow
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  11-0103 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 33 to read as follows:
   33. "CROSSBOW" MEANS A BOW AND STRING,  EITHER  COMPOUND  OR  RECURVE,
 THAT  LAUNCHES A BOLT OR ARROW, MOUNTED UPON A STOCK WITH A TRIGGER THAT
 HOLDS THE STRING AND LIMBS UNDER  TENSION  UNTIL  RELEASED.    CROSSBOWS
 SHALL HAVE A MINIMUM LIMB WIDTH OF SIX INCHES WHEN UNCOCKED AND MEASURED
 FROM THE OUTER LIMB TIPS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09587-01-5

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