NY State Senate Bill 2019-S8065

Senate Bill S8065

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Excludes deer management professionals retained by the incorporated village of Lloyd Harbor from the hunting rifle ban on Long Island

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2019-S8065 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §11-0931, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S1093
2023-2024: S6719

2019-S8065 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes deer management professionals retained by the incorporated village of Lloyd Harbor from the hunting rifle ban on Long Island.

2019-S8065 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8065

SPONSOR: GAUGHRAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
excluding deer management professionals retained by the incorporated
village of Lloyd Harbor

 
PURPOSE:

The legislation would exclude deer management professionals from the
rifle-hunting ban in Lloyd Harbor.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 11-0931 of the
environmental conservation law to exclude deer management professionals
from the rifle-hunting ban in the Village of Lloyd Harbor.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

For several years the Village of Lloyd Harbor successfully mitigated
issues of deer overpopulation through the engagement of Professional
Wildlife Managers. However, due to state law prohibiting the use of
rifles on Long Island, these much needed services are no longer avail-
able to the Village. The Village notes that the ever-increasing deer
population is a matter of public health, safety and environmental degra-
dation. The Village reports that while this program operated in the
Village, they were able to enact a comprehensive and extremely efficient
deer management program.

The deer population needs to be regulated, as it is a matter of public
health and safety. Overpopulation causes residents on Long Island to
experience increased deer-related auto accidents, environmental and
residential damage, and tick-related illnesses. rose dramatically all in
relation to the rising deer population. This limited exception would
allow the Village to continue to address the myriad of issues that over-
population of deer presents in the community.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S8065 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8065
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 16, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   excluding  deer  management professionals retained by the incorporated
   village of Lloyd Harbor
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision 5 of section 11-0931 of the
 environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:
   a. No person shall use a rifle for hunting on Long Island or in  West-
 chester County.  If a person [be] IS found carrying a rifle in the wood-
 lands  on  Long  Island  or  in  Westchester  County, that fact shall be
 presumptive evidence that he OR SHE is illegally using it for hunting in
 that area[; but this]. THIS provision does not apply to: (1) members  of
 a  duly  organized  target shooting club carrying unloaded rifles to and
 from the target range; AND (2) DEER MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS RETAINED BY
 THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF LLOYD HARBOR ACTING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF
 THE VILLAGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15126-03-0

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