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2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or › 11-0535-B - Vulnerable Species.

§ 11-0535-b. Vulnerable species.
1.  As  used  in  this  section,  "vulnerable  species" shall mean any
species of wildlife designated by the department,  by  regulation  filed
with the secretary of state, which meet the following criteria:
(a)  On  the  basis of credible scientific evidence, which may include
information contained on the international  union  for  conservation  of
nature  and  natural  resources red list of threatened species, or other
similar data:
(i) the species has an observed,  estimated  or  projected  population
decline  that  if unreversed, will likely result in the species becoming
endangered or threatened within the foreseeable future; or
(ii) other factors that may cause the species to go  extinct  if  they
are not identified and reversed;
(b) The species is known to be in trade in this state;
(c)  The  species  is  not  protected  as  an endangered or threatened
species by the secretary of the interior; and
(d) The species is not protected under the  Marine  Mammal  Protection
Act.
2.  Except as otherwise provided in subdivision three of this section,
no person shall sell, or possess with the intent to  sell,  any  article
made  in  whole  or  in  part from the skin, hide, or other parts of any
vulnerable species, except under license or permit from the department.
3. The commissioner may issue licenses or  permits  for  the  sale  or
possession  with  intent to sell of any article made in whole or in part
from the skin, hide, or other parts of any vulnerable species,  provided
that:
(a)  the article is part of a bona fide antique and the antique status
of such antique is established by  the  owner  or  seller  thereof  with
historical  documentation  evidencing provenance and showing the antique
to be not less than one hundred years old; or
(b) the article is for bona fide educational or  scientific  purposes,
or  to  be  made part of a temporary or permanent collection of a museum
chartered by the board of regents pursuant to the education law or to  a
museum  authorized  by  a  special  charter from the legislature of this
state, provided that the article is not thereafter sold to  any  private
party.
4.  The  department  shall  maintain  a  list  of  vulnerable  species
identified  pursuant  to  this  section  and  post  such  list  on   the
department's website.
5.  Species  shall  not  be designated as a vulnerable species for the
purposes of this section if:
(a) the species is protected pursuant to any other provision  of  this
chapter; or
(b)  the taking of the species is regulated by the department pursuant
to permit or license.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or › 11-0535-C - Endangered and Threatened Species Mitigation Bank Fund.

* § 11-0535-c. Endangered and threatened species mitigation bank fund.
1.  The  department  is  hereby  authorized  to  utilize  funds in the
  endangered and threatened  species  mitigation  bank  fund,  established
  pursuant  to  section  ninety-nine-hh  of the state finance law, for the
  purposes of implementing an endangered and threatened species mitigation
  plan approved by the department.
2. Such fund shall consist of contributions, in an  amount  determined
  by  the department, deposited by an applicant granted a siting permit to
  construct a major renewable energy facility, where  such  applicant  has
  been  ordered  to mitigate harm to a threatened or endangered species or
  its habitat.
3. In administering the provisions of this article, the commissioner:
a.  May,  in  the  name  of  the  state,  enter  into  contracts  with
  not-for-profit corporations, private or public universities, and private
  contractors  for  services  contemplated  by  this title. Such contracts
  shall be subject to approval by the state comptroller and, as  to  form,
  by the attorney general.
b.  Shall  approve  vouchers  for  payments  pursuant  to  an approved
  contract.  All such payments shall be paid on the audit and  warrant  of
  the state comptroller;
c.  May,  in  the  name  of  the  state,  enter  into contracts with a
  not-for-profit corporation to administer grants made  pursuant  to  this
  title,  including  the  approval  and  payment  of vouchers for approved
  contracts; and
d. May perform such other  and  further  acts  as  may  be  necessary,
  proper, or desirable to carry out the provisions of this article.
4. Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit or restrict any
  powers  of  the  commissioner  or any other agency pursuant to any other
  provision of law.
5. The commissioner is  authorized  and  directed  to  promulgate  any
  regulations deemed necessary to implement this section.
** 6.  The  commissioner  shall  annually  report to the department of
  public service, the governor, the temporary president of the senate  and
  the  speaker  of  the  assembly on the status of the fund and all monies
  added to and expended from the fund.
** NB Repealed December 31, 2040
* NB Repealed December 31, 2030
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or › 11-0537 - Bald and Golden Eagles; Prohibited Acts.

§ 11-0537. Bald and golden eagles; prohibited acts.
It  shall  be  unlawful  to knowingly or with wanton disregard for the
  consequences of this act to take, possess, sell, purchase, barter, offer
  to sell, purchase or barter, transport, export or import, at any time or
  in any manner, any bald eagle commonly known as the American  eagle,  or
  any  golden  eagle,  alive or dead, or any part, nest, or egg thereof of
  the foregoing eagles without a permit from a lawful authority.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or › 11-0538 - Direct Contact Between Public and Big Cats Prohibited.

§ 11-0538. Direct contact between public and big cats prohibited.
1. As used in this section:
(a)  "Big  cat"  shall  mean  any live species of lion (panthera leo),
tiger (panthera tigres), leopard (panthera pardus) (with  the  exception
of  clouded  leopards  (neofelis  nebulosa)),  jaguar  (panthera  onca),
mountain lion, sometimes called cougar (felis concolar) or any hybrid of
such species.
(b)  "Direct  contact"  means  physical  contact  or  proximity  where
physical  contact is possible, including, but not limited to, allowing a
photograph to be taken without a permanent physical barrier designed  to
prevent physical contact between the public and big cats.
(c)  "Dealer" shall mean any person who, in commerce, for compensation
or profit, delivers for  transportation,  or  transports,  except  as  a
carrier, buys, sells, or negotiates the purchase or sale of any animals.
(d)  "Exhibitor"  shall mean any person (public or private) exhibiting
any  animals,  which  were  purchased  in  commerce  or   the   intended
distribution  of which affects commerce, or will affect commerce, to the
public for compensation, as determined by  the  commissioner,  and  such
term  includes  carnivals,  circuses,  and  zoos exhibiting such animals
whether operated for profit or not.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person  licensed  or  required  to  be
licensed as an exhibitor or dealer pursuant to the Animal Welfare Act, 7
USC  2132-2134,  including  agents  or  employees  of  such  person,  to
knowingly allow the public to have direct contact with a big cat.
3. Any person who violates the provisions of  this  section  shall  be
subject to a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for the first
offense  and  not  more  than  one  thousand  dollars  for  a second and
subsequent offenses. Each instance of allowing direct contact of  a  big
cat  with  the  public  in  violation of this section shall constitute a
separate offense.
4. Nothing in this section shall be construed  to  limit  or  restrict
veterinary examination, treatment or care of a big cat or transportation
of the animal for such purpose.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or › 11-0540 - Prohibition on Permits Authorizing the Use of Elephants in Entertainment Acts.

§ 11-0540. Prohibition  on  permits  authorizing the use of elephants in
entertainment acts.
The department shall not  issue  any  license  or  permit  that  would
  authorize  the  use  of  an elephant in an entertainment act pursuant to
  section three hundred eighty of the agriculture and markets law.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 7 - Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses › 11-0704 - Transfer of a Lifetime License.

§ 11-0704. Transfer of a lifetime license.
A  lifetime  license, as provided in section 11-0702 of this title, is
  not transferable to any person unless:
1. the person to whom such license and permit was issued  dies  within
  one year of the issuance date of such license and permit; and
2.  the person to whom such license and permit is to be transferred is
  a legal resident of this state pursuant to this title; and
3. the person to whom such license and permit  is  to  be  transferred
  would otherwise be eligible to purchase such license and permit; and
4.  the person to whom such license is to be transferred is related to
  the person to whom such license  was  issued  by  the  first  degree  of
  consanguinity, or legal marriage to such person, or is the adopted child
  or step child or step sibling of such person; and
5.   designation  is  made  by  the  personal  representative  of  the
  decedent's estate; and
6. The application for transfer is made  within  three  years  of  the
  issuance of the license; and
7.  the person to whom such license and permit is transferred pays the
  fee as set forth in section 11-0702 of this title; and
8. such license and permit has not been previously transferred.
Provided, however, that  subdivisions  one,  six  and  seven  of  this
  section  shall not apply when the person to whom such license was issued
  was a member of the armed forces of the United States or a member of the
  national guard or other reserve component of the  armed  forces  of  the
  United  States  who  died in combat zone or combat zone of operations or
  while deployed for active military duty,  other  than  training,  on  or
  after the eleventh day of September, two thousand one.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 7 - Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses › 11-0705 - Failure to Carry License, Tag or Bowhunting And/or Muzzle-Loading Privileges.

§ 11-0705. Failure   to   carry   license,   tag  or  bowhunting  and/or
muzzle-loading privileges.
1.  a.  The  holder  of  a  license,  tag,  bowhunting  privilege   or
muzzle-loading privilege defined in section 11-0701 of this title shall:
(1)  have  such license, tag or privilege on the holder's person while
exercising any privilege of that license stated in  section  11-0701  of
this  title,  or  while  assisting or accompanying a minor in hunting as
provided in section 11-0929 of this article, and
(2) shall exhibit it on demand to any police officer, peace officer or
owner, lessee or person in  control  of  the  lands  or  waters  or  the
designees  of  the  owner,  lessee  or person in control of the lands or
waters on which the license holder is present.
2. a. Holders of a hunting license while exercising the privileges  of
such license, shall have the back tag issued with their license attached
to  and displayed on the back of the outer garment between the shoulders
in such manner that all figures are plainly visible at all times.
b. The license tag for the current year only shall be displayed.
c. Notwithstanding the provisions  of  paragraphs  a  and  b  of  this
subdivision,  a  license  holder  shall  not be required to display such
license tag in the Northern Zone or the Catskill Park.
3. Failure of a licensee to have the holder's license, tag or  license
with   bowhunting  and/or  muzzle-loading  privilege  included,  on  the
holder's person while  hunting,  fishing  or  trapping,  is  presumptive
evidence  that  the  holder is hunting, fishing or trapping, as the case
may be, without holding the license, tag or license  and  bowhunting  or
muzzle-loading privilege required by subdivision 6 of section 11-0703 of
this title.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 7 - Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses › 11-0706 - Gift Cards for Hunting and Fishing Licenses.

§ 11-0706. Gift cards for hunting and fishing licenses.
1.  The  commissioner  is  authorized  to establish gift cards for the
  licenses and bowhunting  and  muzzle-loading  privileges  set  forth  in
  section 11-0701 of this title.
2.  For  the purposes of this title, the term "gift card" shall mean a
  restricted monetary equivalent or voucher that,  when  redeemed  by  the
  holder,  entitles  such  person  to a valid license or bowhunting and/or
  muzzle-loading privilege as set forth in section 11-0701 of this title.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 7 - Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses › 11-0709 - Circumstances in Which License Under Section 11-0701 Not Required.

§ 11-0709. Circumstances  in  which  license  under  section 11-0701 not
required.
1. When a license or permit issued by the  department,  other  than  a
  license  defined in section 11-0701, permits taking of fish or wildlife,
  such taking is exempted from the requirement of a  license,  defined  in
  section  11-0701,  which would otherwise be required, unless the license
  or permit or the statute  authorizing  its  issuance  states  that  such
  license is required.
2.  Whenever  taking of destructive or menacing wildlife is authorized
  in section 11-0523 of this article,  such  taking  is  exempt  from  the
  requirement of a license which authorizes the holder to hunt wildlife or
  trap,  unless  the provision authorizing such taking specifies that such
  license is required.
3. The holder of a farm fish pond license, members  of  his  immediate
  family  and  persons  actually employed by him in the cultivation of his
  farm or in the management of the  licensed  pond  may,  without  fishing
  license,  take  fish  in accordance with section 11-1911 and regulations
  governing the taking of fish from such fish ponds.
4. The holder of a fishing preserve license, members of his  immediate
  family,  and  any  person to whom the licensee has granted permission to
  take fish from  such  licensed  fishing  preserve  waters  may,  without
  fishing or netting license, take fish in accordance with section 11-1913
  and  regulations governing the taking of fish from such fishing preserve
  waters.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0909 - Hunting Hours.

§ 11-0909. Hunting hours.
1.  Bobcat, mink, muskrat, raccoon, coyote, fox and skunk may be taken
  at any hour, day or night.
2. Migratory game birds shall be taken only during the hours specified
  in regulations adopted by the department pursuant to section 11-0307.
3. a. Wild deer and bear, wild upland game birds, and small game other
  than bobcat, mink, muskrat, raccoon, coyote, fox and skunk, taken in any
  open season, shall be taken  only  between  the  hours  of  sunrise  and
  sunset, unless otherwise provided in regulations of the department.
b.  The department shall have the authority to establish by regulation
  hours of hunting wild deer and bear, wild upland game birds,  and  small
  game,  other than bobcat, mink, muskrat, raccoon, coyote, fox and skunk,
  during the open season provided therefor.
c. Such regulations shall provide for uniform hunting  hours  for  all
  species  of game for which an open season is provided, during all or any
  part of the period covered by such regulations, other than bobcat, mink,
  muskrat, raccoon, coyote, fox and skunk.
d. The  department  shall  have  the  authority  to  provide  in  such
  regulations  for  different  hours  of hunting in different areas as set
  forth in  such  regulations,  and  shall  have  the  authority  in  such
  regulations  to  provide  for  different  hours of hunting for a part or
  parts of any open season.
e. A summary of regulations adopted pursuant to this subdivision shall
  be published each year in  the  hunting  and  fishing  syllabus  of  the
  department issued pursuant to section 11-0323.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0914 - Yearling Buck Protection Program.

§ 11-0914. Yearling buck protection program.
1.  Definitions.  a.  An  "antlered deer" is defined as a deer with at
  least one antler measuring three inches or more in length.
b. "Wildlife management unit" means wildlife regions as demarcated  by
  the department.
2.  Restrictions  and  application.  a.  Any person who hunts or takes
  antlered deer under a valid permit or  license  during  the  bowhunting,
  regular  and  muzzleloading deer seasons is restricted to the hunting or
  taking of antlered deer with at least one antler  with  at  least  three
  points. Each point must be at least one inch long measured from the main
  antler beam.
b.  This  program  applies  to  all public and private land within the
  specified wildlife management units.
3. Wildlife management units. These restrictions shall only  apply  to
  that  portion  of  wildlife  management  unit 3A south and west of state
  route twenty-eight.
4. Exemptions from requirements. Hunters under the  age  of  seventeen
  are  exempt  from  the  provisions of this section and may take any deer
  with an antler or antlers measuring three inches or more in length.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0915 - Disposal of Deer, Moose and Bear Killed Unintentionally by Collision.

§ 11-0915. Disposal  of  deer,  moose and bear killed unintentionally by
collision.
The owner of a motor vehicle which has been damaged  by  unintentional
  collision  with  a deer, moose or bear shall be entitled to possess such
  deer, moose or bear under the following conditions:
1. The accident is reported to an environmental conservation  officer,
  a  member  of  the State Police, a member of the sheriff's department in
  which the accident occurred or, if the accident occurred on lands  under
  the  jurisdiction  of  the  office  of  parks,  recreation  and historic
  preservation, to an officer of  the  regional  park  police  having  law
  enforcement  responsibilities on such lands, or to any police officer of
  a city, town or village located in the county of such accident within 24
  hours thereafter.
2. The officer shall investigate and, if he finds the deer,  moose  or
  bear  has  been killed or so injured as to require that it be killed and
  the damage has been done as alleged, he shall  issue  a  permit  to  the
  owner  of the motor vehicle entitling such owner to possess the carcass.
  Such permit shall authorize the owner of the motor vehicle  to  transfer
  the carcass to a designated person.
3.  Whenever  the  owner  of  such  damaged  motor vehicle declines to
  possess such deer, moose or bear, the officer  may  in  his  discretion,
  issue a permit to possess the carcass to any other party requesting such
  possession.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0919 - Aid to Wildlife in Distress.

§ 11-0919. Aid to wildlife in distress.
1.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of law, rule or regulation to the
  contrary, any person who may discover protected  wildlife  in  distress,
  except  foxes and skunks, may capture the same and render necessary aid.
  For the purposes of this section "in distress" shall mean  the  apparent
  inability  to  survive in the wild thus requiring human assistance. Such
  person shall, as soon  as  possible  after  capture  of  such  wildlife,
  deliver  it  to  a  person  licensed  pursuant  to  section  11-0515  to
  rehabilitate wildlife.
2. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule  or  regulation  to  the
  contrary,  a wildlife rehabilitator licensed pursuant to section 11-0515
  of this article shall be authorized to capture, transport, rehabilitate,
  release and euthanize rabies vector species, provided that such wildlife
  rehabilitator  has  completed  a  training  course   approved   by   the
  commissioner  or  provided  by  the  department. A rabies vector species
  exhibiting signs or symptoms of central  nervous  system  disorder  when
  first encountered by a wildlife rehabilitator or while under the care of
  a  wildlife  rehabilitator  shall  be  euthanized  immediately  by  such
  rehabilitator and disposed of as directed by  the  local  county  health
  department  office.  The  commissioner  shall,  in consultation with the
  commissioner of health, promulgate  regulations  as  necessary  for  the
  implementation of this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0921 - Surrender of Game Unfit for Human Consumption; Permit for Taking Another of Species Surrendered.

§ 11-0921. Surrender  of  game  unfit  for human consumption; permit for
taking another of species surrendered.
When a wild turkey, wild deer or  wild  bear  is  taken  by  a  person
  holding  a  license or permit and, upon presentation to an environmental
  conservation officer or other authorized employee of the department,  it
  is shown to the satisfaction of such officer or authorized employee that
  its flesh was unfit for human consumption at the time it was killed, the
  taker  may  surrender  the carcass to the officer or authorized employee
  and the officer or authorized employee shall issue the taker  a  special
  permit  to  take another specimen of the same species as surrendered and
  for which the season is still open.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0923 - Dogs.

§ 11-0923. Dogs.
1. No owner or trainer of a dog shall:
a.  allow  it  to  hunt  deer, or to run at large on enclosed lands on
  which wildlife or  domestic  game  is  possessed  under  license  issued
  pursuant  to  the Fish and Wildlife Law or in any state park, state park
  reservation, state-owned game farm or wildlife refuge or state-owned  or
  leased wildlife management area;
b.  allow  it  to  run  at  large in fields or woods inhabited by deer
  outside the limits of any city or  village,  except  on  lands  actually
  farmed  or  cultivated by the owner or trainer of the dog or a tenant of
  such owner or trainer.
2. No owner or trainer of a dog shall take it afield for  training  on
  wild game except from August 16 to April 15 or as otherwise permitted by
  department order.
3.  Dogs  may  be  trained  on  artificially  propagated game which is
  shackled, or led or confined game, legally  possessed,  or  on  training
  dummies or other artificial devices at any time on lands owned or leased
  by  the owner or trainer of the dog or on lands for which he has written
  permission of the owner or lessee, provided such training is done  in  a
  manner to preclude any disturbances injurious to wildlife.
4.  During  the  training  of a dog, the trainer and any person in his
  company shall not possess afield a firearm loaded with ammunition  other
  than  blank shells or blank cartridges, or inflict any injury to animals
  or game birds contrary to law.
5. Dogs hunting deer, or hunting any  wildlife  or  domestic  game  on
  enclosed  lands  described in paragraph a of subdivision 1 or on a state
  game farm or wildlife refuge or wildlife management area, may be  killed
  as provided in section 11-0529.
6. Wildlife, except skunk, deer and bear, may be taken with the aid of
  a dog, provided, however, that the department is authorized to establish
  a  training  season during which only persons licensed by the department
  pursuant to section 11-0928 of this article may train tracking  dogs  on
  bear.  Such  season  shall  not begin before July first and shall end at
  least eight days in advance of any open hunting season for bear  and  no
  person  participating  in  such  training shall possess a firearm of any
  kind or a longbow. Nothing in this subdivision  shall  be  construed  to
  invalidate  or  otherwise  affect  a permit to track or take bear issued
  pursuant to subdivision one of section 11-0521 of this article.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0925 - Special Dog Training Areas.

§ 11-0925. Special dog training areas.
1.  a. A dog owner or trainer may establish and maintain a special dog
  training area on land which the owner  or  trainer  owns  or  has  legal
  control.
b.  The operator of a special dog training area may at any time during
  the year train the operator's own dogs or the dogs of other  persons  on
  such  area, and permit others to train dogs. The operator may hold field
  trials on wild game, or on liberated game, or on liberated  artificially
  propagated  game,  or  on led or confined game, or may in writing permit
  others to hold such trials, under such conditions  as  shall  be  agreed
  upon  by  the operator and such other person; but no game shall be taken
  by shooting at such field trial. No persons  shall,  on  a  special  dog
  training  area,  train a dog, hold a field trial, enter accompanied by a
  dog, or permit a dog of which he is  the  owner  or  trainer  to  enter,
  except  as provided in this section or in rules adopted pursuant hereto.
  A permit from the department must be obtained before liberation  of  any
  wildlife,  and  such  a permit may be withheld if, in the opinion of the
  department, granting it would endanger the  health  of  native  wildlife
  species.
2.  The  department  may adopt rules regulating the use of special dog
  training areas.
3. No person shall hunt on a  special  dog  training  area  except  as
  provided in this section or rules adopted pursuant thereto. The owner of
  the  lands  may  hunt  unprotected wildlife thereon at any time, and the
  owner of the land and others authorized by  such  owner  may  hunt  deer
  thereon during the open season but at no other time.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0927 - Field Trials.

§ 11-0927. Field trials.
1.  No  person  shall  hold  a  field trial except as provided in this
  section or take part in a field trial not conducted in  accordance  with
  the provisions of this section.
2.  a.  A  field  trial  may  be  held  on  liberated  game, liberated
  artificially propagated game, led or confined game legally possessed, or
  on wild game on a  licensed  dog  training  area  at  any  time  without
  license,  provided  such  game  is  not  taken  by shooting or otherwise
  killed; and, on areas other than a  licensed  dog  training  area,  such
  field trials may be held on wild game from August 16 to April 15 without
  license,  or  at  such  other times when licensed by the department from
  April 16 to August 15.
b. A permit from the department is  required  for  liberation  of  any
  wildlife.
3. Wild game shall not be taken by shooting or otherwise killed in the
  course  of  a field trial. Other game on which a field trial may be held
  as provided in this section may be taken by shooting in the course of  a
  field  trial, except a field trial held on a licensed dog training area,
  provided a  license  for  such  shooting  has  been  procured  from  the
  department.  Game  so  taken  shall  be  immediately identified on forms
  provided by the department  until  the  game  is  finally  prepared  for
  consumption.
4.  Game  so identified may be possessed, transported, bought and sold
  at any time, without limitation by section 11-0917 of this article.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0928 - Tracking Dogs.

§ 11-0928. Tracking dogs.
Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this chapter, the department
  may by regulation provide for the certification of leashed tracking dogs
  and may authorize the use of  such  dogs  by  persons  licensed  by  the
  department  to track and find dead, wounded or injured big game, and for
  the certification of trained tracking dogs and may authorize the use  of
  such  dogs  by persons licensed by the department to track bear pursuant
  to subdivision one of section 11-0521 of this article.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0933 - Taking Small Game by Crossbow.

§ 11-0933. Taking small game by crossbow.
Notwithstanding   any   provision   of  this  chapter,  or  any  prior
  notwithstanding  language  in  this  article,  the  department  may,  by
  regulation,  authorize  the  taking  of  small game and wild upland game
  birds by the use of a crossbow by any licensed person fourteen years  of
  age  or older, in any small game season, in any area designated in items
  (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (i),  (k),  and  (l)  of  paragraph  a  of
  subdivision  two  of section 11-0907 of this title in which a shotgun or
  muzzle loader is permitted.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0935 - Deer Hunting Program.

* § 11-0935. Deer hunting program.
1.  Notwithstanding  subdivision  one-a  of  section  11-0701  and the
crossbow prohibition of subdivision one of section  11-0929,  a  hunting
license holder who is twelve or thirteen years of age may hunt deer with
a  crossbow,  rifle,  shotgun,  or muzzle-loading firearm as provided in
this title in an eligible area provided that:
(a) such minor is accompanied by their parent or legal guardian, or by
a person designated in writing by such parent or  legal  guardian  on  a
form  prescribed  by  the  department  who is twenty-one years of age or
older; and
(b) such parent, guardian or person has  had  at  least  three  year's
experience in hunting deer; and
(i) such parent, guardian or person holds a hunting license; and
(ii)  such  parent, guardian or person maintains physical control over
the minor at all times while hunting. For the purposes of this paragraph
"physical control" shall mean that the physical proximity of such  minor
to  the  parent, guardian or person is such that the parent, guardian or
person is reasonably able to issue verbal directions  and  instructions,
maintain  constant  visual  contact,  and otherwise provide guidance and
supervision to the minor; and
(iii) such parent, guardian or person and the minor remain  at  ground
level at all times while hunting; and
(c)  such  parent, guardian or person and the minor shall each display
either a minimum total of two  hundred  fifty  square  inches  of  solid
fluorescent  orange  or  pink  or  patterned  fluorescent orange or pink
consisting of no less than fifty  percent  fluorescent  orange  or  pink
material  worn above the waist and visible from all directions, or a hat
or cap with no less than fifty percent of  the  exterior  consisting  of
solid   fluorescent  orange  or  pink  material  and  visible  from  all
directions.
2. For the purposes of this section "eligible area"  shall  include  a
county  that  has  passed  a  local law authorizing participation in the
pilot program and has notified the  department  of  such  participation,
provided,  however,  that the following counties: Westchester; Richmond;
Bronx; New York; Kings; Queens; Nassau; and Suffolk shall not be  deemed
to be eligible.
3.  The  department  shall  prepare a report by February first of each
year including  the  following  information  at  a  minimum:  number  of
violations;  hunting  related  incidents  and  revocations  pursuant  to
section 11-0719; the number of counties  participating;  the  number  of
minors participating; and the number of deer taken.
* NB Repealed December 31, 2025
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 10 - Falconry › 11-1001 - Definitions.

§ 11-1001. Definitions.
(1)  "Raptors"  means  all  species  of  the  orders  Strigiformes and
Falconiformes and shall include but not be limited  to  falcons,  hawks,
owls  and  eagles  except  the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetor) and bald
eagle (Haliaetus leucocephalus) and all birds listed  as  endangered  or
threatened  pursuant  to  section  11-0535  of  this  article.  However,
properly banded  peregrine  falcons  which  are  the  progeny  of  birds
lawfully  acquired  prior to 1978 are raptors within the meaning of this
section. (2) "Falconry" means the sport of hunting by the use of trained
raptors and includes the training, feeding and handling  of  such  birds
and their recapture after being released for hunting or training.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 10 - Falconry › 11-1003 - Falconry License.

§ 11-1003. Falconry license.
Any  resident  of  this  state  may  be issued a falconry license. The
  department shall prescribe and furnish forms for  application  for  such
  license.  The  fee  for  the  license  shall  be forty dollars. Falconry
  licenses shall expire on December 31  every  fifth  year  and  shall  be
  renewable  at the discretion of the department. A falconry license shall
  authorize the licensee to obtain, buy, sell, barter, possess  and  train
  raptors  for  falconry  and to engage in falconry, provided that no game
  shall be taken or killed except during  an  open  season  therefor,  and
  further  provided  that  such  licensee  shall  also  possess  a license
  pursuant to this chapter which authorizes the holder to  hunt  wildlife.
  Any non-resident, who legally possesses a raptor where he or she resides
  and  who  may  legally  engage  in falconry where he or she resides, may
  engage in falconry in New York without a falconry license provided he or
  she possesses a valid non-resident hunting license.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 10 - Falconry › 11-1005 - Falconry Advisory Board.

§ 11-1005. Falconry advisory board.
The  commissioner  shall appoint a falconry advisory board of not less
  than five members who are residents of the state and who shall serve  at
  the pleasure of the commissioner and who shall be qualified by reason of
  their  association  with state or national organizations or institutions
  with  primary   interests   in   ornithology,   falconry   or   wildlife
  conservation.    The duties of the falconry advisory board shall include
  (i)  recommending  qualifications  for  eligibility  of  applicants  for
  falconry   licenses,  (ii)  reviewing  and  screening  applications  for
  falconry  licenses  and  recommending  action  to  be  taken   on   each
  application,  (iii) recommending the species and number of raptors which
  may be possessed or taken from the wild by each applicant and the manner
  of such taking, and  (iv)  recommending  falconry  hunting  seasons  and
  regulations for various game species.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 10 - Falconry › 11-1007 - Department Authority.

§ 11-1007. Department authority.
The  department  shall  make  such rules and regulations governing the
  issuance and use of falconry  licenses  as  it  shall  deem  proper  and
  necessary,  giving  due  consideration  to  the  recommendations  of the
  falconry advisory board. The department may fix  by  regulation  special
  open  seasons  for  the  taking  of  small  game or upland game birds by
  falconry. The department may revoke any falconry license and  may  seize
  raptors  held  pursuant  thereto  if  the  licensee (i) fails to provide
  proper care for the raptors in the licensee's  possession,  (ii)  allows
  raptors  in the licensee's possession to become a public nuisance, (iii)
  is convicted of or settles by civil  compromise  any  violation  of  any
  provision of this chapter or regulation of the department, or (iv) fails
  to comply with any of the terms or conditions of the falconry license.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 10 - Falconry › 11-1009 - Prohibitions.

§ 11-1009. Prohibitions.
(1) Raptors for use in falconry shall not be bought, sold or bartered,
or  offered for sale or barter, except that this section shall not apply
to the captive bred progeny of lawfully acquired raptors.
(2) No person shall possess or maintain in  captivity  any  raptor  or
raptors,  except  as  otherwise  provided  by law, unless he shall first
obtain a falconry license.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 11 - Trapping › 11-1103 - Open Trapping Seasons.

§ 11-1103. Open trapping seasons.
1. The department may by regulation permit trapping of beaver, fisher,
  otter,  bobcat,  coyote,  fox, raccoon, opossum, weasel, skunk, muskrat,
  pine marten and mink, or any  of  them,  in  specified  areas,  and  may
  regulate  the  taking,  possession and disposition of such animals.  The
  periods in which trapping of such  animals  is  so  permitted  are  open
  seasons  for  the trapping of the species for which the period is fixed,
  in the area or areas for which it is so fixed.
2. When an investigation made by the department in the month of  March
  of  any year reveals that during the current open season for muskrats in
  any  county  or  part  thereof  in   the   Southern   Zone,   reasonable
  opportunities  were not afforded to trappers to harvest the muskrat crop
  of such season because of abnormal trapping conditions,  the  department
  shall  have power to extend by regulation the open season in such county
  or part thereof for a period not to exceed twenty days.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 11 - Trapping › 11-1105 - Procedure.

§ 11-1105. Procedure.
1.  Traps  set  for  taking wildlife shall bear the name and residence
  address or the assigned identification number of the operator legibly at
  all times, provided, that state, county and  municipal  law  enforcement
  agencies  shall have access to the name, address and telephone number of
  such operator who was assigned such identification number. They shall be
  visited once in each twenty-four hours,  except  in  the  Northern  Zone
  where  they shall be visited once in each forty-eight hours or a shorter
  interval of no less than twenty-four hours as  the  department  may,  by
  regulation,  require, and all wildlife held captive shall immediately be
  removed from the traps.
2. Wildlife lawfully taken alive in traps may be killed in any manner,
  except that where the taking is pursuant to a permit or special license,
  it may not be killed in violation of any term of such permit or license.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 11 - Trapping › 11-1107 - Possession, Transportation and Sale.

§ 11-1107. Possession, transportation and sale.
Wildlife  taken  by trapping may be possessed, transported, bought and
  sold as provided  in  section  11-0917,  and  shall  not  be  possessed,
  transported, bought or sold except as so provided.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 11 - Trapping › 11-1109 - Registered Muskrat Marshes.

§ 11-1109. Registered muskrat marshes.
1.  Applicability.  A  registered  muskrat  marsh is an enclosed marsh
  which was registered with the department prior to  September  1  of  the
  year  previous  to  the  year  in  which  a  privilege granted or a rule
  provided by this section is invoked or applied.
2. Registration. Application for registration of a muskrat marsh shall
  be made upon forms supplied for such purpose by the department.  If  the
  department  is  satisfied  that  the marsh covered by the application is
  being managed in accordance with sound management  practices,  it  shall
  issue  a  certificate  of registration which shall entitle registrant to
  apply for the permission provided for in this  section.  The  department
  shall be entitled to receive ten dollars as a registration fee.
3. Control of muskrats on registered marshes. The owner or lessee of a
  registered  marsh  may  apply  to  the department for permission to trap
  within specified dates during the closed season in order  to  allow  the
  removal of surplus muskrats, not required for breeding stock.
4.  Investigation; permit. The department shall cause an investigation
  to be made of the allegations of all trapping applications filed with it
  by registered applicants, and may, in its discretion, issue a permit  to
  such  applicant,  allowing  him,  and  persons  whom he may designate in
  writing, to trap muskrats  within  specified  dates  during  the  closed
  season,  except  that no such permit shall be issued for the trapping of
  muskrats during the period from May 1 through October 31. The  name  and
  address  of  every  person designated in writing to trap shall, prior to
  the time designee begins to trap, be forwarded by the registrant to  the
  Department   of   Environmental   Conservation,  Albany,  New  York,  by
  registered mail.
5. Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the  Fish  and
  Wildlife  Law  to  the  contrary,  the  department  may make regulations
  governing  the  manner  of  trapping  muskrats  on  registered  marshes;
  provided, however, that no such regulations shall be made which are more
  restrictive  than  provisions  of  this chapter expressly regulating the
  manner of taking muskrats.
6. Reports. Registrants shall, not later than  May  1  of  each  year,
  furnish  the  department  with  a report covering the number of muskrats
  trapped.
7. License. No person other than the owner  or  lessee  thereof  shall
  engage  in  trapping  on  a  registered marsh unless he holds a trapping
  license.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 12 - Hunting While Intoxicated › 11-1201 - Definitions.

§ 11-1201. Definitions.
For the purposes of this title:
1. "Hunting" means shooting or killing wildlife, including shooting or
  killing wildlife lawfully trapped or otherwise reduced to possession, or
  pursuing  or  capturing  wildlife  with any weapon, projectile, or other
  device  or  instrumentality;  and  includes  all  lesser  acts  such  as
  disturbing, harrying, or worrying, whether they result in taking or not,
  when  done  with  the aid or accompaniment of any weapon, projectile, or
  other device or instrumentality; and every attempt to take and every act
  of assistance to any other  person  in  taking  or  attempting  to  take
  wildlife,  when  done  with  the  aid  or  accompaniment  of any weapon,
  projectile, or other device or instrumentality. "Wildlife"  as  used  in
  this subdivision means "wildlife" as that term is defined in subdivision
  six of section 11-0103 of the environmental conservation law.
2.  "Intoxicated  condition" shall mean the presence of .08 of one per
  centum or more by weight of alcohol in a  person's  blood  as  shown  by
  chemical  analyses  of his blood, breath, urine, or saliva made pursuant
  to section 11-1205 of this title. An "impaired condition" shall  mean  a
  state of impairment of a person's capacity to think or act correctly, or
  of  a loss, even in part of a person's control of his physical or mental
  faculties due to his consumption of alcohol or use of a drug.
3. "Drug" means "drug" as that term is defined in section one  hundred
  fourteen-a of the vehicle and traffic law.
4.  "License  to hunt", or "permit to hunt" means any license, permit,
  or other privilege granted pursuant to section 11-0701 of  this  article
  which authorizes the holder to hunt wildlife.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 12 - Hunting While Intoxicated › 11-1203 - Hunting While Intoxicated Prohibited.

§ 11-1203. Hunting while intoxicated prohibited.
1.  No  person  shall  engage in hunting while he is in an intoxicated
  condition.
2. No person shall engage in hunting while his ability  to  engage  in
  such  hunting  without  creating unreasonable risk of injury or death to
  himself or other human life is impaired by his consumption of alcohol or
  use of a drug.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 12 - Hunting While Intoxicated › 11-1207 - Evidence Admitted in Court.

§ 11-1207. Evidence admitted in court.
Upon  the  trial  of  any  action or proceeding arising out of conduct
  alleged to have been committed by any person arrested for a violation of
  any subdivision of section 11-1203 of this title, the court shall  admit
  evidence  of  the amount of alcohol or drugs in the defendant's blood as
  shown by a test administered  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section
  11-1205  of  this  title. Evidence that there was five-hundredths of one
  per centum or less by weight of alcohol in such person's blood is  prima
  facie  evidence  that  the  ability  of such person to engage in hunting
  without creating unreasonable risk of injury  or  death  to  himself  or
  other  human  life  was  not  impaired  by  the  consumption of alcohol.
  Evidence that there was less than eight one-hundredths of one per centum
  by weight of alcohol in such person's blood is prima facie evidence only
  that such person  was  not  in  an  intoxicated  condition  due  to  the
  consumption of alcohol.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 12 - Hunting While Intoxicated › 11-1211 - Savings Clause.

§ 11-1211. Savings clause.
If  any  word,  clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or other part of
  this title is adjudged by any court  of  competent  jurisdiction  to  be
  invalid,  such  judgment  shall  not  affect,  impair, or invalidate the
  remainder of this title, but shall be confined in its operation  to  the
  word,  clause,  sentence,  paragraph,  section,  or  other part thereof,
  directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment is rendered.