New York Laws
Title 9 - Enforcement of Articles 11 and 13--the Fish and Wildlife Law
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.