STATE OF NEW YORK
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307
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- 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
authorizing persons to hunt with a crossbow
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3-0301 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph dd to read as
3 follows:
4 dd. On or before July first, two thousand eleven promulgate standards
5 to allow for legalized crossbow hunting throughout the state including
6 the use of a crossbow on private property as a legal hunting implement
7 during any deer hunting season. For the purposes of this paragraph, the
8 term "crossbow" shall mean a bow and string (either compound or recurve)
9 that launches a minimum fourteen inch arrow (not including point),
10 mounted upon a stock with a trigger that holds the string and limbs
11 under tension until released. The trigger unit must have a working safe-
12 ty. The minimum limb width to a crossbow shall be seventeen inches, have
13 a minimum peak draw weight of one hundred pounds and a maximum peak draw
14 weight of two hundred pounds. The minimum overall length of a crossbow
15 from butt to stock to front of limbs shall be twenty-four inches.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01129-01-9
