A7724-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to environmental conservation
• May 16, 2011: referred to environmental conservation

A7724-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         7724
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 May 16, 2011
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Environmental Conservation
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
 defining the term public highway for purposes  of  unlawfully  feeding
 deer
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Subdivision 8  of  section  11-0505  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  381  of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:

 8. No person shall place, give, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter
 any substance with the intent to attract or entice deer to  feed  within
 three hundred feet of a public highway.  Normal agricultural practice of
 planting, cultivating or harvesting and the feeding of deer held captive
 for  agricultural  purposes  or the feeding of deer held captive in zoos
 and wildlife parks shall not be considered attracting or  enticing  deer
 to feed for the purposes of this section.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVI
 SION,  THE  TERM  "PUBLIC HIGHWAY" SHALL MEAN ANY HIGHWAY, ROAD, STREET,
 AVENUE, PUBLIC PLACE, PUBLIC DRIVEWAY OR ANY OTHER  PUBLIC  RIGHT-OF-WAY
 WHERE  THE  PUBLIC  HAS A GENERAL RIGHT OF PASSAGE WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE.
 PUBLIC HIGHWAY SHALL NOT INCLUDE PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11593-01-1

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