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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 18, 2025
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 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