N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 6 § 73.5

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024

Section 73.5 - General provisions

(a) No permittee shall fail to check out at the check station by one hour after legal shooting time.

(b) No permittee shall fail to fill out the hunter questionnaire if provided by the department. All game must be checked out at the check station by the takers prior to leaving the area. Failure to do so may result in forfeiture of hunting privileges in the area.

(c) No person shall fail to comply with regulatory signs posted by the department on the area.

(d) No person shall litter, build fires, damage fences or gates, damage unharvested crops or newly planted fields, damage or move hunting blinds in the area, or hunt or shoot near or otherwise disturb persons working on a cooperator's lands in the area. No person shall drive a motor vehicle in the area except on public roads.

(e) No person shall, in the area:

(1) consistently shoot high;

(2) engage in disorderly conduct;

(3) be intoxicated;

(4) engage in any behavior which may endanger the safety of persons or property.

(f) The department may refuse to issue a special hunting permit to anyone, revoke a special hunting permit or eject a person from the area for any of the prohibited acts listed in this Part.

(g) No person shall use or possess in the area more than 15 shells per day, nor use or possess shot larger than shot size number 1-fine when hunting waterfowl or small game.

(h) No hunting party shall hunt waterfowl in the area unless they use six or more decoys.

(i) No permittee shall hunt in the area on the side of the road other than the side on which his vehicle is parked. No permittee shall cross any roads while hunting in the area.

(j) No more than six persons per vehicle shall be allowed in the area.

(k) No person shall make false statements in making a reservation. Any permit obtained by fraud, or by a person not entitled to be issued it or who makes false statements in applying for it, shall be void.

(l) The department reserves the right to close the waterfowl season, on all or designated portions of the area, after 12 noon on any day or days, by posted notice at the check station.

(m) Except as otherwise provided in this Part, the provisions of the Environmental Conservation Law and of regulations fixed by order in relation to open seasons, hunting hours, manner of taking, use of firearms, and other activities shall apply to hunting in the area.

(n) Lake shore waterfowl hunting on the area is restricted to designated Cayuga Lake sites, with no more than three hunters permitted in each blind at any one time.

(o) All shooting must be from the designated Cayuga Lake blinds except when retrieving crippled waterfowl.

(p) All parties hunting from the Cayuga Lake blinds must have a boat to facilitate waterfowl retrieval.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 6 § 73.5