Prohibits the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on wildlife management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks or any other state-owned land that is open for hunting and on land contributing surface water to the New York city water supply.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5058
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 22, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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
prohibiting the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on
state-owned land and land contributing surface water to the New York
city water supply
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 11-0901 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as
3 follows:
4 h. Wildlife shall not be taken with the use of lead ammunition on: (1)
5 wildlife management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks
6 or any other state-owned land that is open for hunting; and (2) the land
7 area contributing surface water to the New York city water supply. For
8 the purposes of this paragraph "lead ammunition" shall mean any ammuni-
9 tion that contains one or more percent of lead by weight.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023. Effective immediate-
11 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
12 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
13 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07581-01-1
