Bill > A5236

Introduced Session

Existing law requires a deer management plan, adopted by a county board of agriculture, a county governing body, a municipal governing body, or the owner or operator of an airport, to document the written consent of all private landowners affected by the deer management plan, in order to authorize access to their private lands for the purposes of local deer management activities. This bill would amend the law to eliminate this consent requirement. The bill would further specify that, notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, neither the Fish and Game Council nor the Division of Fish and Wildlife in the Department of Environmental Protection may require a county board of agriculture, a county governing body, a municipal governing body, or the owner or operator of an airport, as part of a community based deer management plan, to obtain the written consent of the owners of private lands situated in, or within 2,000 feet of, the designated special deer management area, in order to for a law enforcement officer, an animal control officer, an agents thereof, or another authorized person to access or enter upon such private lands for the purposes of retrieving a deer darted for sterilization, or for other purposes associated with the authorized implementation of the deer management plan.

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Raj Mukherji (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Food Security Committee (on 02/27/2023)

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