STATE OF NEW YORK
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9316
IN SENATE
May 10, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
mental Conservation) -- 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
extending the authority of the department of environmental conserva-
tion to adopt regulations for hunting in the northern zone
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 8 of section 11-0907 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 205 of the laws of
3 2021, is amended to read as follows:
4 c. Until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-four] twenty-sev-
5 en, such special season for the Northern Zone or any portion thereof may
6 by regulation be for up to a fourteen-day period preceding the regular
7 open season for deer stated in column two of the table set forth in
8 subdivision 2 of this section or may be for up to a fourteen-day period
9 following such open season or any combination thereof, provided that a
10 maximum of sixteen days is not exceeded for any open area. Regulations
11 establishing such Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big game season
12 may specify the taking of deer of either sex, antlerless deer only,
13 legal bucks only, or any combination thereof, and may require that
14 persons participating in the Northern Zone muzzle-loading firearm big
15 game season obtain a special permit from the department. When establish-
16 ing these regulations, the department must consider the condition of the
17 herd and communities', property owners', hunters' and other relevant
18 interests.
19 § 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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