Assembly Bill A2689

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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

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    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A2689 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0931, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A7641

2023-A2689 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A2689 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2689
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BLUMENCRANZ -- read once and referred 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, or the incorporated village of  Upper  Brook-
   ville

   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, OR THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF
 UPPER BROOKVILLE, 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.
                                                            LBD06916-01-3

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