N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law Section 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: Section 71-0903 — Accessories guilty as principals, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ENV/71-0903 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 31, 2026).

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