Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to organize, sponsor, conduct, promote, or participate in any animal killing contest, competition, tournament or derby where the objective of such contest or competition is to take the largest number of small game, wild birds, other than wild turkeys, and domestic game birds.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7542
IN SENATE
January 24, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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
making animal killing contests, competitions, tournaments and derbys
unlawful
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 14, 15 and 16 of section 11-0901 of the envi-
2 ronmental conservation law, subdivision 14 as renumbered by chapter 486
3 of the laws of 1985, are renumbered subdivisions 15, 16 and 17 and a new
4 subdivision 14 is added to read as follows:
5 14. It shall be unlawful for any person to organize, sponsor, conduct,
6 promote, or participate in any contest, competition, tournament, or
7 derby with the objective of taking the largest number of small game,
8 wild birds, other than wild turkeys, and domestic game birds for prizes
9 or other inducement, or for entertainment. Any small game, wild birds,
10 other than turkeys, and domestic game birds injured during the course of
11 a contest, competition, tournament, or derby conducted in violation of
12 this subdivision shall be transported to a licensed wildlife rehabilita-
13 tor or veterinarian for treatment or humane euthanasia if best efforts
14 to rehabilitate and release the animal fail. The remains of any small
15 game, wild birds, other than turkeys, and domestic game birds killed
16 during the course of a contest, competition, tournament, or derby
17 conducted in violation of this subdivision shall be forfeited by every
18 organizer, promoter, participant or any other person conducting or
19 involved in such contest, competition, tournament, or derby and the
20 remains of such small game, wild birds, other than turkeys, and domestic
21 game birds shall become the property of the department. The provisions
22 of this subdivision shall not apply to special dog training areas or
23 field trials pursuant to sections 11-0925 and 11-0927 of this title, or
24 similar canine performance events.
25 § 2. Section 71-0921 of the environmental conservation law is amended
26 by adding a new subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 10-a. Violations of subdivision fourteen of section 11-0901 of this
2 chapter involving unlawful contests, competitions, tournaments and
3 derbys to take small game, wild birds, other than turkeys, and domestic
4 game birds. Each such misdemeanor shall be punishable by imprisonment
5 for not more than one year or by a fine of not less than five hundred
6 dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment
7 and fine.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
9 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
