3 18 STATE OF NEW YORK. 



ARTICLE XIV. 

 Laws Repealed, Definitions and Other Provisions. 



Section 300. Amendments to the game law. 



301. Definitions. 



302. Ordinances and regulations of boards of supervisors repealed. 



303. Powers of boards of supervisors. 



304. Laws repealed and saving clause. 



305. Construction. 



306. The clerk of the assembly to print and distribute copies of this act. 



307. Construction. 



308. When to take effect. 



Amendments to the Game Law. 



§ 300. All amendments to the game law shall be made a part of this act and additions to 

 the game law shall be numbered as sections thereof. 



Definitions. 



§ 301. Words and phrases under this act, and in proceedings pursuant thereto, shall, unless 

 inconsistent with the contest, mean or include as follows : 



1. " Person " shall include persons, copartnerships, joint-stock companies and corporations, 

 and when used with reference to commission of acts which are herein forbidden, shall include 

 persons particeps criminis in the acts, and the officers, agents and directors or trustees and 

 similar controlling body of corporations. 



2. Words importing masculine gender may apply to copartnerships, females, joint-stock 

 companies and corporations. 



3. Words importing the plural number may import the singular number. 



4. Words importing the singular number may extend to and be applied to several persons 

 or things. 



5. "Angling" is defined to mean taking fish with hook and line and by rod held in hands, 

 and does not include set lines. In fishing from boats, rods and lines not exceeding two in 

 number may be used by any one person. 



6. " Exclusive right to shoot, hunt or fish" is defined to mean the right of any person own- 

 ing or having the right to the possession of the premises, or of any person leasing or reserving 

 the exclusive right to shoot, hunt or fish thereon from the owner. 



7. " Commissions," " commissioners " or " board of commissioners," as used in this chapter, 

 shall be construed to mean the commissioners of fisheries, game and forest. 



8. " Article," when standing alone in this act, shall be construed to refer to one of the 

 articles hereof. 



9. " Close season " is that period of time during which an act is prohibited. 



