Bill Text: NY S02953 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02953 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02953-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2953--C
            Cal. No. 190
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining  its  place  in the order of third reading -- recommitted to
          the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to  said  committee  --  reported
          favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered to first and second report,
          ordered to a third reading, passed by  Senate  and  delivered  to  the
          Assembly,  recalled,  vote  reconsidered,  restored  to third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
          regulation of live restraint  cable  devices  to  take  wildlife;  and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration there-
          of
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   Subdivision 5 of section  11-1101  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation law is amended to read as follows:
     3    5. Except as provided in subdivision 1 or 2 of section 11-0523 of this
     4  article  with  respect  to  destructive and menacing wildlife, no person
     5  shall (a) set or use a trap of the leg-gripping type having teeth in the
     6  jaws; (b) set a leg hold trap so that wildlife when caught is suspended;
     7  (c) use, locate or set a snare or a device consisting of a noose of  any
     8  material  whereby  an animal may be taken, except the department may, by
     9  regulation, authorize the use of live restraint cable  devices  to  take
    10  coyote  and  other  species  as  allowed by the department in the state,
    11  except in the following  counties:    Westchester,  Rockland,  Richmond,
    12  Suffolk and Nassau. These regulations shall include live cable restraint
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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