It seems to me that ideally the city would take the lead in petitioning DEC for
a remedy. Other entities, groups and individuals might sign-on as joint
petitioners. The first hurdle would be to convince the city that enforcing its
existing firearms ban on the grounds of Stewart Park, while certa
The state has the authority to restrict or ban hunting in any area it
designates, for any of a variety of reasons, including public safety. And the
state already has the resources in place to communicate and enforce such
restrictions. If the city or its citizens want a ban in the waters off Stew
Missing from this exchange is the fact that it was DEC's top waterfowl
biologist, in consultation with the DEC office in Cortland, who recommended
that the easiest way to resolve the human conflicts was to enforce the already
existing ordinance passed by the City of Ithaca, but not recently enfo
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Afraid not. That's just where the well-established supremacy of the state's
sole authority to regulate hunting comes in. This is not an issue where home
rule rights might plausibly be asserted. State-wide regulation of hunting is
clearly a preemptive "general law" as defined in Article IX of the
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I was just looking at ecode section 336-10, which concerns the boundaries of
Stewart Park. A casual reading might suggest that the park extends north into
the lake a considerable distance (all the way to the city line), but this is
not the case. A more careful reading will reveal that within the
