Assembly Bill A4120

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibiting the taking of non-native big game mammals in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to escape

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2017-A4120 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5613
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-1904, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6788, S3223
2011-2012: A4475, S3157, S6154
2013-2014: A3772, S3426
2015-2016: A3701, S2775
2019-2020: A883, S2519
2021-2022: A5732, S1036
2023-2024: A3784, S589

2017-A4120 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the taking of non-native big game mammals in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to escape.

2017-A4120 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4120
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GLICK,  PAULIN, COLTON, JAFFEE, ENGLEBRIGHT,
   ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  COOK,  CUSICK,  DINOWITZ,
   GALEF,  GOTTFRIED,  PERRY,  TITUS  --  read  once  and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   prohibition on canned shoots
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1  of  section  11-1904  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  208  of the laws of 1999, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. No person who owns, operates or manages  a  facility  that  harbors
 non-native big game mammals shall knowingly permit:
   a.  The  taking on such premises by any person who pays [a] ANY fee to
 take a live non-native big game mammal by any of the following means:
   (1) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal  that  is
 tied or hobbled;
   (2)  the  shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is
 staked or attached to any object;
   (3) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal  that  is
 confined  in  a  box,  pen,  cage  or  similar container [of ten or less
 contiguous acres] OR IN A FENCED OR OTHER AREA from which  there  is  no
 means for such mammal to escape;
   (4)  the  deliberate  release  of a non-native big game mammal that is
 confined in a box, pen, cage  or  similar  container  [of  ten  or  less
 contiguous  acres]  OR  IN A FENCED OR OTHER AREA FROM WHICH THERE IS NO
 MEANS FOR SUCH MAMMAL TO ESCAPE in the presence of any person who is, or
 will be, shooting or spearing such non-native big game mammal.
   b. For purposes of this section:
   (1) shooting shall mean the discharge of any type of  firearm  or  bow
 and arrow; [and]

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

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