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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2689
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2023
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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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 11-0931 of the
2 environmental conservation law is amended to read as follows:
3 a. No person shall use a rifle for hunting on Long Island or in West-
4 chester County. If a person [be] is found carrying a rifle in the wood-
5 lands on Long Island or in Westchester County, that fact shall be
6 presumptive evidence that he or she is illegally using it for hunting in
7 that area[; but this]. This provision does not apply to: (1) members of
8 a duly organized target shooting club carrying unloaded rifles to and
9 from the target range; and (2) deer management professionals retained by
10 the incorporated village of Lloyd Harbor, or the incorporated village of
11 Upper Brookville, acting within the boundaries of the village.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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