Bill Text: NY A05199 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts traps set in water from the requirement that they be visited once every 24 hours; requires such traps shall be visited once every 48 hours or a shorter interval as determined by the department of environmental conservation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to environmental conservation [A05199 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05199-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5199

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, HAWLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          McDONOUGH,  REYES  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Envi-
          ronmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          exempting  traps  set  in  water from the requirement of being visited
          every twenty-four hours

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.    Subdivision  1  of section 11-1105 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 279 of  the  laws  of  2010,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  Traps  set  for  taking wildlife shall bear the name and residence
     5  address or the assigned identification number of the operator legibly at
     6  all times, provided, that state, county and  municipal  law  enforcement
     7  agencies  shall have access to the name, address and telephone number of
     8  such operator who was assigned such identification number. They shall be
     9  visited once in each twenty-four hours, except  traps  in  the  Northern
    10  Zone  [where they] and traps set in water which shall be visited once in
    11  each forty-eight hours or a shorter interval of no less than twenty-four
    12  hours as the department may, by regulation, require,  and  all  wildlife
    13  held captive shall immediately be removed from the traps.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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