ECL 71-0903 · Title 9. Enforcement of Articles 11 and 13--the Fish and Wildlife Law
Accessories guilty as principals
Text — Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 71-0903. Accessories guilty as principals.
1. A person who counsels or aids in a violation of any provision of the Fish and Wildlife Law or a regulation or order of the department pursuant to the Fish and Wildlife Law, or knowingly shares in any of the proceeds of such a violation by receiving or possessing fish, game, wildlife, shellfish, crustacea or protected insects is guilty of the violation which he counsels or aids, or the proceeds of which he knowingly shares.
2. In any case where possession, transportation, buying or selling of fish, game, wildlife, shellfish, crustacea or insects is unlawful solely because the taking thereof was unlawful, such possession, transportation, buying or selling by a person other than a person guilty of the unlawful taking shall be punishable only if done with knowledge that the taking was unlawful.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of October 30, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/ENV71-0903
- Text hash
- sha256 52727f58ec4f26b0e5e78cb1bd862e0663c9ef93036c717cb9d49a3e26a17ccf
- Composed by
- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.