Amd SS11-0507, 11-0925, 11-0927, 11-0903 & 11-0905, En Con L
Relates to management of wildlife resources; permits the release of certain ring-necked pheasant or quail birds without permit; adjusts the hunting season to August 16 to April 15, catch limits, and geographic areas for hunting certain species.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1749--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. REILLY
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conserva-
tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
management of wildlife resources
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 11-0507 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended to read as follows:
3 3. No person shall willfully liberate within the state any wildlife
4 except under permit from the department. The department may issue such
5 permit in its discretion, fix the terms thereof and revoke it at pleas-
6 ure. These provisions do not apply to migratory game birds, importation
7 of which is governed by regulation of the department or to the release
8 of ring-necked pheasant or quail during the period August sixteenth to
9 April fifteenth.
10 § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 11-0925 of the environ-
11 mental conservation law, as added by chapter 432 of the laws of 1997, is
12 amended to read as follows:
13 b. The operator of a special dog training area may at any time during
14 the year train the operator's own dogs or the dogs of other persons on
15 such area, and permit others to train dogs. The operator may hold field
16 trials on wild game, or on liberated game, or on liberated artificially
17 propagated game, or on led or confined game, or may in writing permit
18 others to hold such trials, under such conditions as shall be agreed
19 upon by the operator and such other person; but no game shall be taken
20 by shooting at such field trial. No persons shall, on a special dog
21 training area, train a dog, hold a field trial, enter accompanied by a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 dog, or permit a dog of which he is the owner or trainer to enter,
2 except as provided in this section or in rules adopted pursuant hereto.
3 A permit from the department must be obtained before liberation of any
4 wildlife, except for the release of ring-necked pheasant or quail during
5 the period August sixteenth to April fifteenth and such a permit may be
6 withheld if, in the opinion of the department, granting it would endan-
7 ger the health of native wildlife species.
8 § 3. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 11-0927 of the environ-
9 mental conservation law is amended to read as follows:
10 b. A permit from the department is required for liberation of any
11 wildlife. This provision does not apply to release of ring-necked pheas-
12 ant or quail during the period August sixteenth to April fifteenth.
13 § 4. Paragraphs c and c-1 and the closing paragraph of subdivision 2
14 of section 11-0903 of the environmental conservation law, paragraph c as
15 amended and paragraph c-1 as added by chapter 366 of the laws of 2011
16 and the closing paragraph of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 911 of
17 the laws of 1990, are amended to read as follows:
18 c. pheasants [anywhere in the state other than Long Island];
19 [c-1. pheasants on Long Island, but only for those individuals who
20 hold a junior license, and provided that such youth pheasant hunting
21 days are held prior to the start of the open season as indicated in
22 paragraph d of subdivision two of section 11-0905 of this title;]
23 Such open seasons and bag limits may be fixed for the entire state[,
24 except on Long Island in the case of pheasants], or for any county or
25 part thereof, giving due regard to abundance of the species and poten-
26 tial hunting pressure. The department may regulate the taking,
27 possession and disposition of wild turkeys.
28 § 5. Paragraphs d and e of subdivision 2 of section 11-0905 of the
29 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 911 of the laws of
30 1990, are amended to read as follows:
31 d. Ring-necked [Long Island November [Long Island, four
32 pheasant 1 through December birds in one day,
33 31. Elsewhere, fixed] thirty during season.
34 Fixed annually by Elsewhere, fixed] Fixed
35 regulation annually by regulation
36 e. Quail [Orange, Putnam and [Orange, Putnam and
37 Westchester counties, Westchester counties;
38 fixed] Fixed annually four birds in one day,
39 by regulation[; Long ten during season.
40 Island, November 1 Long Island, six birds
41 through December 31] in one day, forty
42 during season]
43 Fixedannuallyby
44 regulation.
45 § 6. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
46 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
