New York State Senate S2375-A Canned Hunt Bill

     STATE OF NEW YORK

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                                         2735--A



                               2003-2004 Regular Sessions



                    IN SENATE



                                      March 4, 2003

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        Introduced  by  Sens. PADAVAN, MALTESE, TRUNZO -- read twice and ordered

          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-

          mental Conservation -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered

          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee



        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.  Subparagraphs  3 and 4 of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of

     2  section 11-1904 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chap-

     3  ter 208 of the laws of 1999, are amended to read as follows:

     4    (3) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal  that  is

     5  confined  in  a  box,  pen,  cage  or  similar container [of ten or less

     6  contiguous acres] or in a fenced or other area from which  there  is  no

     7  means for such mammal to escape;

     8    (4)  the  deliberate  release  of a non-native big game mammal that is

     9  confined in a box, pen, cage  or  similar  container  [of  ten  or  less

    10  contiguous  acres]  or  in a fenced or other area from which there is no

    11  means for such mammal to escape in the presence of any person who is, or

    12  will be, shooting or spearing such non-native big game mammal.

    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-

    14  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.