STATE OF NEW YORK
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7550
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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
allowing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track dead, wounded or
injured big game
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 11-0936 to read as follows:
3 § 11-0936. Unmanned aerial vehicles.
4 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
5 may by regulation provide for the certification of unmanned aerial vehi-
6 cles and may authorize the use of such unmanned aerial vehicles by
7 persons licensed by the department to track and find dead, wounded or
8 injured big game, and for the certification of unmanned aerial vehicles
9 and may authorize the use of such unmanned aerial vehicles by persons
10 licensed by the department to track bear pursuant to subdivision one of
11 section 11-0521 of this article.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
16 on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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