Limits the department of environmental conservation's ability to fix special open seasons for taking wild deer to ending no later than the 3rd Sunday of December of each year; allows the department to issue regulations for special seasons for particular counties or designated wildlife management units after consultation with local governments and stakeholders.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7551
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
limiting the department of environmental conservation's ability to fix
special open seasons for taking wild deer
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 9 of section 11-0903 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 911 of the laws of
3 1990, is amended to read as follows:
4 c. Such seasons may be fixed for any number of days during the period
5 beginning on the eleventh day after the close of a regular open season
6 for deer established by law and ending on [February 10] the third Sunday
7 of December immediately following; provided, however that the department
8 may, upon consultation with local governments and stakeholders, issue
9 regulations for special seasons for particular counties or designated
10 wildlife management units.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03128-03-5
