Allows for prosecution under criminal trespass in the third degree, a class B misdemeanor, hunting, fishing or trapping on real property with notice against trespass.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1468
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to hunting, fishing or trap-
ping on real property with notice against trespass
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (g) of section 140.10 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subdi-
3 vision (h) is added to read as follows:
4 (g) where the property consists of a right-of-way or yard of a rail-
5 road or rapid transit railroad which has been designated and conspicu-
6 ously posted as a no-trespass railroad zone[.]; or
7 (h) while hunting, fishing or trapping: (i) when notice against tres-
8 pass has been personally communicated to the trespasser by the owner of
9 such real property or a person authorized by such owner; or (ii) when
10 the real property has been conspicuously posted as a no-trespass area.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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