§ 11-0903. Open hunting seasons and bag limits fixed by regulation.\n * 1. Open seasons and bag limits with respect to migratory game birds\nshall be those published annually in the federal register by the U.S.\nDepartment of the Interior, unless the department adopts regulations\npursuant to section 11-0307. Notice of such open seasons and bag limits\nshall be provided by department press release and any other means that\nthe department determines to be appropriate and effective, including\nposting on the department's public website.\n * NB Effective until December 31, 2027\n * 1. Open seasons and bag limits with respect to migratory game birds\nshall be those fixed by the department in regulations pursuant to\nsection 11-0307, to conform with federal regulations made under\nauthority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (16 U.S.C.\n§§ 703-711).\n * NB Effective December 31, 2027\n 2. The department may fix annually by regulation the open seasons and\nbag limits for wild game of the following species, until the date\nspecified:\n a. Hungarian partridge;\n b. black, gray and fox squirrels, bobcat, lynx, coyote, fox, European\nhare, varying hare and cottontail rabbits, and may regulate or prohibit\nthe use of dogs in hunting varying hare during any regular open season\nfor deer;\n c. pheasants anywhere in the state other than Long Island;\n * c-1. pheasants on Long Island, but only for those individuals who\nhold a junior license, and provided that such youth pheasant hunting\ndays are held prior to the start of the open season as indicated in\nparagraph d of subdivision two of section 11-0905 of this title;\n * NB Repealed December 31, 2028\n d. raccoon;\n e. wild turkeys;\n f. frogs, salamanders, turtles, lizards and snakes.\n Such open seasons and bag limits may be fixed for the entire state,\nexcept on Long Island in the case of pheasants, or for any county or\npart thereof, giving due regard to abundance of the species and\npotential hunting pressure. The department may regulate the taking,\npossession and disposition of wild turkeys.\n 3. Any open season for pheasants, fixed by regulation of the\ndepartment in the counties of Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware,\nDutchess, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis,\nMontgomery, Oneida, Orange, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer,\nRockland, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Sullivan and Ulster shall include\nthe intervening Sundays as part of such open season.\n 4. The department shall fix annually by regulation open seasons and\nbag limits for ruffed grouse and, whenever possible, and in its opinion\nit is in the public interest, shall make such seasons run concurrently\nwith open seasons for taking woodcock.\n 5. Whenever in its opinion deer shall become numerous enough, on state\nor federal lands closed to the hunting of deer with firearms, to require\npopulation control for proper deer management, the department may by\nregulation permit the taking of deer of either sex, by long bow only, on\nsuch lands or any parts thereof during the regular open season for the\nsurrounding area as provided in subdivision 2 of section 11-0907,\nprovided, however, that no regulation adopted pursuant hereto shall\ninclude within its provisions any of the areas set forth in subdivision\n5 of section 11-0907. Only persons properly licensed to hunt during the\nspecial archery season established in paragraph a of subdivision 1 of\nsection 11-0907 shall be eligible to hunt pursuant to this subdivision.\n 6. a. Whenever investigation made by the department within the\nAdirondack park shows that deer have become numerous enough to cause\noverbrowsing of the range within any "Wilderness Hunting Area" defined\nin section 11-0103, the department may fix by regulation an open season\nfor taking antlerless deer in a tract within such area. The boundaries\nof any such tract shall not be less than three miles from any state,\ncounty or township road. Any such
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