IN SENATE Introduced by Sen. PADAVAN Read Twice and Ordered Print

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A 10188-AStringer Same as Uni. S 6446-A PADAVAN Environmental Conservation Law TITLE....Extends the prohibition on canned shoots of non-native big game mammals to additional conditions Currently on Assembly Committee Agenda
Codes (LENTOL) 11:30 AM, Tuesday, May 11, 2004 Room 630 LOB

03/11/04-referred to environmental conservation 04/02/04-amend and recommit to environmental conservation 04/02/04-print number 10188a 04/20/04-reported referred to codes

BILL TEXT

A10188A

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. PADAVAN -- read twice and ordered print-

ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental

Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted

as amended and recommitted to said committee

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. STRINGER, CARROZZA, ENGLEBRIGHT,

GRANNIS, LAVELLE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BING, CYMBROWITZ,

GALEF, LAFAYETTE, McENENY, O'DONNELL, PHEFFER -- read once and

referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee

discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted

to said committee

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to

extending the prohibition of canned shoots of non-native big game

mammals

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-

bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 11-1904 of the

2 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 208 of the laws of

3 1999, is amended to read as follows:

4 a. The taking on such premises by any person who pays a fee to take a

5 live non-native big game mammal by any of the following means:

6 (1) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is

7 tied or hobbled;

8 (2) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is

9 staked or attached to any object;

10 (3) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is

11 confined in a box, pen, cage or similar container of ten or less contig-

12 uous acres from which there is no means for such mammal to escape; or of

13 any non-native big game mammal, excluding the white-tailed deer propa-

14 gated under a domestic game animal breeder's license pursuant to section

15 11-1905 of this title or propagated on a preserve or island outside the

16 state under a law similar in principle to that of this title, in a

17 fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to

18 escape;

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[] is old law to be omitted.

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S. 6446--A 2 A. 10188--A

1 (4) the deliberate release of a non-native big game mammal that is

2 confined in a box, pen, cage or similar container of ten or less contig-

3 uous acres in the presence of any person who is, or will be, shooting or

4 spearing such non-native big game mammal; or of any non-native big game

5 mammal, excluding the white-tailed deer propagated under a domestic game

6 animal breeder's license pursuant to section 11-1905 of this title or

7 propagated on a preserve or island outside the state under a law similar

8 in principle to that of this title, in a fenced or other area from which

9 there is no means for such mammal to escape in the presence of any

10 person who is, or will be, shooting or spearing such non-native big game

11 mammal.

12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-

13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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