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S00589 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           589
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  KRUEGER,  HOYLMAN, LIU, SERRANO -- 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 the
          prohibition on canned shoots

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  11-1904 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as added by chapter  208  of  the  laws  of  1999,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  No  person  who  owns, operates or manages a facility that harbors
     5  non-native big game mammals shall knowingly permit:
     6    a. The taking on such premises by any person who pays [a] any  fee  to
     7  take a live non-native big game mammal by any of the following means:
     8    (1)  the  shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is
     9  tied or hobbled;
    10    (2) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal  that  is
    11  staked or attached to any object;
    12    (3)  the  shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is
    13  confined in a box, pen, cage  or  similar  container  [of  ten  or  less
    14  contiguous  acres]  or  in a fenced or other area from which there is no
    15  means for such mammal to escape;
    16    (4) the deliberate release of a non-native big  game  mammal  that  is
    17  confined  in  a  box,  pen,  cage  or  similar container [of ten or less
    18  contiguous acres] or in a fenced or other area from which  there  is  no
    19  means for such mammal to escape in the presence of any person who is, or
    20  will be, shooting or spearing such non-native big game mammal.
    21    b. For purposes of this section:
    22    (1)  shooting  shall  mean the discharge of any type of firearm or bow
    23  and arrow; [and]
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02909-01-3

        S. 589                              2
 
     1    (2) spearing shall mean the use of any hand or mechanically  propelled
     2  single or multiple pronged pike, blade, or harpoon; and
     3    (3)  fee  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to, the payment of any
     4  compensation or remuneration for room,  board,  meals,  lodging  or  any
     5  other goods or services on the premises.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     7  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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