11-2003 – Advisory Committee.
§ 11-2003. Advisory committee. There shall be created within the department a New York state bird conservation area program advisory committee whose non-governmental members shall serve without pay, meet not less than twice each year, and whose sole purpose shall be to advise as to the designation, management, educational research and utilization of those sites […]
11-2050 – Establishment of the Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Protection Area.
§ 11-2050. Establishment of the marine mammal and sea turtle protection area. 1. There shall be created the marine mammal and sea turtle protection area consisting of the waters in the area from mean high water seaward fifteen hundred feet, except further seaward in shallow areas to the outermost limit of waters fifteen feet in […]
11-2101 – Powers of the Department.
§ 11-2101. Powers of the department. 1. The department shall have power: a. to make regulations for the use of state-owned boat-launching sites and state-owned boat-access sites and public hunting, trapping and fishing grounds and to prohibit, limit and manage hunting, trapping and fishing on lands, waters or lands and waters on which such grounds […]
11-2103 – Acquisition and Use of Property.
§ 11-2103. Acquisition and use of property. 1. The department shall have power to acquire by lease, purchase, gift, devise, agreement or otherwise from any sources, lands, waters or lands and waters, or any right or interest therein for the purpose of establishing and maintaining public hunting, trapping and fishing grounds. 2. a. The department […]
11-2105 – State Game Refuges.
§ 11-2105. State game refuges. 1. Any enclosed land or water owned by the state may be set aside by the department as a refuge for the protection of fish, wildlife, trees and plants. Not more than one hundred thousand acres in the Adirondack park nor more than fifteen thousand acres in the Catskill park […]
11-2106 – National Wildlife Refuge System; Regulations.
§ 11-2106. National Wildlife refuge system; regulations. The department shall adopt regulations in relation to fish and wildlife on lands of the national wildlife refuge system within this state which regulations shall conform to the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd, 668ee), as presently constituted or as hereafter amended, and […]
11-2107 – Consent for the United States to Acquire Land or Water for the Establishment of Migratory Bird Reservations.
§ 11-2107. Consent for the United States to acquire land or water for the establishment of migratory bird reservations. Consent of the state is given to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, gift, devise or lease of such areas of land or water, or of land and water, in the state of New […]
11-1903 – Shooting Preserves.
§ 11-1903. Shooting preserves. 1. The department may, in its discretion, issue to an owner or lessee of wholly enclosed lands or an entire island a shooting preserve license permitting him or her to purchase, possess, rear and transport, and to release and take by shooting therein, domestic game birds legally possessed or acquired. No […]
11-1904 – Canned Shoots Prohibited.
§ 11-1904. Canned shoots prohibited. 1. No person who owns, operates or manages a facility that harbors non-native big game mammals shall knowingly permit: a. The taking on such premises by any person who pays a fee to take a live non-native big game mammal by any of the following means: (1) the shooting or […]
11-1905 – Breeding of Domestic Game Animals.
§ 11-1905. Breeding of domestic game animals. 1. The department may, in its discretion, issue to an owner or lessee of wholly enclosed lands or an entire island a domestic game animal breeder’s license permitting him to possess and propagate domestic game animals provided such animals are confined and cared for according to specifications and […]