S2958-2011 Actions

• Feb 3, 2011: REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

S2958-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2958

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to shooting
preserves

SUMMARY:
This legislation would amend subdivision
nine of section
11-1903 of the environmental conservation law by prohibiting
individuals from engaging in the killing or injuring of confined
animals for the purpose of entertainment, contest or any other
reason. This bill would also prohibit premises from being licensed as
"shooting preserves" for the purpose of the practice described above,
also known as "canned hunting" or "domestic safaris."

JUSTIFICATION:
With the growing awareness that animals need to be handled humanely
comes the obligation to establish parameters for the proper treatment
of animals. As a society, we cannot condone the blatant disregard for
life displayed by "canned hunting." Shooting, maiming, and killing
confined mammals for the purpose of entertainment is nothing less
than callous iniquity and must not be tolerated.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law.

S2958-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         2958
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 3, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- 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
 shooting preserves
 

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

 

Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 9 of  section  11-1903
 of the environmental conservation law is designated paragraph a and four
 new paragraphs b, c, d and e are added to read as follows:

 B.    NO  INDIVIDUAL, FIRM, CORPORATION OR ASSOCIATION SHALL ENGAGE IN
 THE KILLING OR INJURING OF ANY CONFINED ANIMALS: WILD, DOMESTIC,  EXOTIC
 OR  INDIGENOUS,  NOT  INCLUDING  PREDATORY  WILDLIFE DISTURBING DOMESTIC
 GAME, FOR THE PURPOSES OF ENTERTAINMENT, CONTEST OR ANY OTHER REASON.
 C. ANY INDIVIDUAL, FIRM, CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION, OR PARTNERSHIP THAT
 VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION IS SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENAL
 TY OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS NOR  MORE  THAN  TEN  THOUSAND
 DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION.
 D.  NO  PREMISES  MAY  BE  LICENSED  AS  "SHOOTING  PRESERVES" FOR THE
 PURPOSES OF "CANNED HUNTING" OR "DOMESTIC SAFARIS"  WHEREIN  A  LICENSEE
 MAY  CHARGE  A DAILY FEE OR CHARGE A FEE FOR EACH CONFINED ANIMAL KILLED
 OR A COMBINATION THEREOF.
 E. AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, "CONFINED  ANIMAL"  MEANS  ANY  MAMMAL
 THAT HAS BEEN HELD IN CAPTIVITY FOR ANY AMOUNT OF TIME OR REASON WHETHER
 OR NOT THE LICENSEE KNOWS THE LENGTH OF CAPTIVITY.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07127-01-1

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