STATE OF NEW YORK
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1255
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, PERKINS -- 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
making monk (Quaker) parakeets protected birds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 11-0103 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 47 of the laws of
3 1976, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. "Unprotected wild birds" means the English sparrow and starling,
5 and also includes pigeons and psittacine birds, except for monk (Quaker)
6 parakeets, existing in a wild state, not domesticated.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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