STATE OF NEW YORK
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10175
IN ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A.
J. A. Giglio) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environ-
mental Conservation
AN ACT directing the department of environmental conservation to estab-
lish a deer management pilot program in the town of Southold
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regu-
2 lation to the contrary, the department of environmental conservation is
3 hereby authorized and directed to establish a deer management pilot
4 program in the town of Southold. Such program shall:
5 a. set and modify deer hunting seasons and regulate methods of take
6 and bag limits in the town of Southold;
7 b. allow use of firearms to take deer during the regular season and
8 eliminate acreage minimums and special season constraints within the
9 town of Southold;
10 c. regulate crossbow use within the town of Southold, including when,
11 where, and who is eligible to use crossbows for the taking of deer;
12 d. set conditions under which hunters can receive some form of compen-
13 sation for killing deer within the town of Southold;
14 e. allow 12- and 13-year-old hunters to hunt deer with the supervision
15 of a licensed, experienced adult within the town of Southold;
16 f. allow 12- and 13-year-old hunters to hunt using firearms from a
17 tree stand within the town of Southold, provided it is a tree stand
18 designed to accommodate two or more persons and provided further that
19 the supervising, experienced hunter is in the tree stand with the 12- or
20 13-year-old;
21 g. allow the department of environmental conservation to establish or
22 extend, as needed, a special January firearm season within the town of
23 Southold;
24 h. allow the department of environmental conservation to regulate the
25 standards for the harvesting of bucks or antlered deer within the town
26 of Southold;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 i. establish other incentives for hunters and landowners to permit
2 public deer hunting on private land within the town of Southold;
3 j. issue any other rules or regulations as deemed necessary within the
4 town of Southold;
5 k. regulate deer culling by qualified professionals under circum-
6 stances holding special permits, including:
7 (i) authorizing the department of environmental conservation to issue
8 special permits for qualified professionals under controlled circum-
9 stances to conduct professional culling within the town of Southold;
10 (ii) granting the department of environmental conservation full regu-
11 latory authority over the issuance of such special permits and granting
12 the department authority to establish any rules and regulations neces-
13 sary within the town of Southold, including but not limited to:
14 (1) authorizing the use of bait within 300 feet of a road;
15 (2) authorizing special permit holders to shoot from a vehicle;
16 (3) authorizing special permit holders to discharge firearms within
17 500 feet of a dwelling or structure;
18 (4) authorizing the use of firearms equipped with sound suppression;
19 (5) authorizing the use of rifles; and
20 (6) any other rules or regulations for such special permits as the
21 department of environmental conservation deems fit within the town of
22 Southold.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.