2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 9 - Hunting › 11-0913 - Deer Management Permits.

§ 11-0913. Deer management permits.
1.  a. Until December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four, whenever
  in its opinion the population of deer in any area of the state except in
  the northern zone is such that additional harvest of deer is  reasonably
  necessary  to properly manage the deer herd in the state in balance with
  the available deer range and natural food  supply,  the  department  may
  provide   by   regulation  for  issuance  of  deer  management  permits,
  permitting the taking of one deer for the permit,  in  addition  to  the
  limit of one deer that may otherwise be taken by one person in a license
  year.
b.  In  the issuance of permits, the department may give preference to
  resident license holders and may give  preference  to  service-connected
  disabled   veterans  having  40  percent  or  greater  service-connected
  disability as evidenced by a compensation rating from the United  States
  Department  of  Veterans  Affairs  or  the  United  States Department of
  Defense who shall  only  have  to  provide  proof  of  service-connected
  disability  at  the  time  of initial issuance of the permit, and to the
  applications of groups which include a person or the spouse of a person,
  provided that such spouse lives in the same household, who owns at least
  50 acres of land in one parcel in the specified area.
c. "Owner" as used in this section shall include the owner  or  spouse
  of  the  owner of record of such parcel, provided that such spouse lives
  in the same household as the owner, or a purchaser  or  spouse  of  such
  purchaser  of  such  parcel, provided that such spouse lives in the same
  household as such purchaser, under an executory contract  duly  recorded
  in  the  office  of  the  recording  officer in the county in which real
  property to which  it  relates  is  situate,  who  actually  occupy  and
  cultivate such parcel.
2.  Each such regulation shall specify, with respect to the permits to
  which it relates:
a. The open season or part thereof and the day or days of such  season
  in which such permits may be used;
b. The specific area in which they are valid;
c.  The manner of taking for which such permits are valid, which shall
  conform with the specifications as to the manner of taking deer  in  the
  open season for which the permits may be used;
d.  The  method  of  application  for  and  issuance  of such permits,
  including eligibility and allocation among applicants;
e. The number of persons, no fewer than one nor  more  than  six,  who
  must join in the application; and
f. Such other regulations as the department may determine.
3.  Each  member  of  a group issued a permit pursuant to this section
  shall possess a license which authorizes the holder to hunt deer  before
  the permit may be validated.
4.  During  a  license year, no person shall use more than one license
  which authorizes the holder to hunt deer during the regular open  season
  in making application for a deer management permit.
5.  The  provisions of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 11-0911
  shall not apply when a deer is  taken  pursuant  to  a  deer  management
  permit,  but  the  department  may  by regulation provide an alternative
  method of identifying and reporting the deer so taken.
6. With each deer management permit there shall be  issued  a  tag  or
  seal  and  a  reporting  form  as  the  department shall determine to be
  appropriate, and the additional deer may be  taken  only  by  the  group
  member who, at the time, is in physical possession of the permit and any
  tag, seal and reporting form issued with it.
7.  The  department  shall charge and receive a fee of ten dollars for
  the application and the processing of such permit or permits. Applicants

  who are successful in  the  computerized  selection  shall  receive  the
  permit  or  permits  free  of any additional charge. The application fee
  shall be non-refundable. The department may waive  the  application  fee
  for  holders  of  a  lifetime  sportsman  license existing as of October
  first, two thousand nine and holders of  a  hunting  license  less  than
  sixteen years of age.
8.  Except  with  respect  to  deer  management  unit  thirty-four the
  provision of this section shall not apply to the "Northern Zone" of  the
  state  as  defined  in  subdivision  sixteen  of section 11-0103 of this
  chapter.
9. Nothing set forth in this section shall prevent the department from
  permitting the issuance of deer management permits in those portions  of
  Franklin,  St.  Lawrence, Jefferson and Lewis counties and Northern Zone
  portions of Oneida and Oswego counties which are situated  in  the  area
  generally  described  as the Lake Ontario Plain, St. Lawrence Valley and
  peripheral Adirondacks/peripheral Tug Hill  region.  The  department  is
  authorized and directed to promulgate any rules or regulations necessary
  to  more  particularly  describe  the  region  of land set forth in this
  subdivision.