N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 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.