COUNCIL DOCUMENTS

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING DATES:

January 21, 2025 - 7pm

February 18, 2025 - 6pm

March 18, 2025 - 7pm

April 15, 2025 - 6pm

May 20, 2025 - 7pm

June 17, 2025 - 6pm

July 15, 2025 - 7pm

August 19, 2025 - 6pm

September 16, 2025 - 7pm

October 21, 2025 - 6pm

November 18, 2025 - 7pm

December 16, 2025 - 6pm

memorandums

  • SUPPORT

    Amend the environmental conservation law to lower the age for universal hunting licenses from fourteen years old to twelve years old.

  • OPPOSITION

    Legislation that would raise the minimum age at which individuals are permitted to possess rifles and shotguns to twenty-one from the current age of sixteen.

  • SUPPORT

    Establish a minimum age ten and define the circumstances for juveniles to possess rifles, shotguns and air guns.

  • SUPPORT

    Repeal the restrictions, background checking and record keeping requirements for the retail sale of ammunition imposed by the SAFE Act.

  • OPPOSITION

    Amending the agriculture and markets law by expanding the scope of the aggravated cruelty to animals prohibition to include wildlife.

  • OPPOSITION

    Imposition by the Adirondacks Park Agency of time limits on occupancy in private campgrounds located in the Adirondack Park.

  • OPPOSITION

    Prohibiting the operation of all-terrain vehicles in the state forest preserve, Long Island central pine barrens area and Albany pine bush preserve.

  • SUPPORT

    Amending the vehicle and traffic law to raise the defined maximum weight for all-terrain vehicles.

  • SUPPORT

    Amending the vehicle and traffic law to exempt from registration all-terrain vehicles used solely on lands owned by or leased to the vehicle owner.

  • SUPPORT

    Amend the environmental conservation law to permit the use of live restraint cable devices to take coyotes.

  • SUPPORT

    Amend the penal law in relation to the sale of ammunition by shooting preserves and shooting clubs.

  • OPPOSITION

    Providing free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses or a refundable tax credit for active sportsman education instructors.

  • SUPPORT

    Amend the environmental conservation law in relation to crossbow hunting to permit the taking of game with the crossbow analogous to the longbow.

  • SUPPORT

    Access for the disabled and mobility impaired to state forest lands and wildlife management areas.

  • OPPOSITION

    Establishing liability for owners of dogs for injuries caused by such dog without any prior reason to believe that the dog was a dangerous dog.

  • OPPOSITION

    Provide for the regulation of and sets standards for the tether, restraint and sheltering of dogs.

  • OPPOSITION

    Provides for the imposition of restrictive business practices and additional record keeping requirements on firearms and ammunition dealers.

  • OPPOSITION

    Prohibition of firearms as prizes in games of chance.

  • SUPPORT

    Require the Department of Environmental Conservation to review laws and policies pertaining to free or reduced cost hunting and fishing licenses.

  • SUPPORT (if amended)

    Provision of free or reduced cost hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to disabled persons.

  • SUPPORT (WITH CONCERNS)

    Provide a tax credit to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers for hunting and fishing license fees.

  • OPPOSITION

    Prohibition of competitions involving the taking of wildlife.