Discharge Laws

[G-Man]

Foe example in Marilla and alden, there is 2 rod rd, 3 rod road and 4 rod road, the nice thing is that is the description of each roads r.o.w. a rod is approximately 16ft.

Think of a town cutting trees off your front yard between the road and sidewalk they are town trees as row extends to other side of side walk, to many time you see people fighting to save their trees only to find out they aren't their trees at all

[jjb4900]

not to mention, that smaller Villages and Towns can have totally different restrictions then the State does....it would be impossible for the State to write the absolute restrictions on all roadways in  the State. 

[Doc]

I'm not an expert on writing laws, but I would have thought that simply stating "the highway and the applicable right-of-way" would have been quite explicit and removed all of the "etcetera" verbiage. It would then be the responsibility of any hunter who wanted to hunt that close to the road to contact the authorities and establish where they are legal to shoot from before hunting or shooting from there. It would also be the responsibility of any LEO to do the same before enforcing that law.

[Core]

IMO you're over-thinking this. Stay a reasonable distance off the road and you're fine.

 

If you want more evidence, bring up the "DEC Interactive mapper" (google), and zoom to the Tonawanda state wildlife management area, just south east of lockport in western NY.

 

Now bring up google and look for the "alabama swamps shooting range". It is on bartel rd AKA owen rd. Go to road view. Here it is, and here is a guy shooting. The DEC definitely know about this site

 

 

 

 

[Jaeger]

I remember reading in one of the old hunting regulation guides, in the section with the questions to ECO's at the end, the one need be off the shoulder of the road.  Like said above no part of the load may pass over a road.

[tuckersdaddy]

so does that mean if there is a sign 'no maintaince from Nov to april' it's not a maintained road during that time? hmmmm.

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[bkln]

No TD, it means don't shoot across the road and stay away from it at least 5-10 yards, that's all....

[growalot]

Well let's really complicate this...define a road...for farmers and large parcel land owners have roads..they just aren't named...So if one shoots and hits something or some one on such a road or across one...you can bet it would be argued in court. How many have shot across such roads?

[Curmudgeon]

Given the way the law reads, there isn't a jury in upstate NY that would convict someone for shooting off the pavement but still on the right-of-way.

[BellR]

Well let's really complicate this...define a road...for farmers and large parcel land owners have roads..they just aren't named...So if one shoots and hits something or some one on such a road or across one...you can bet it would be argued in court. How many have shot across such roads?

 

I'm pretty sure this applies only to publicly maintained roads, not ones you or a farmer maintain.

[bkln]

Yeah Grow, I meant public roads. On the private land you can do WTF you want :-)