Assembly Bill A5199

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Exempts traps set in water from the requirement that they be visited once every 24 hours

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A5199 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-1105, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9173
2013-2014: A1105
2015-2016: A1016
2017-2018: A264
2019-2020: A3609
2023-2024: A4394

2021-A5199 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2021-A5199 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5199
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision  1  of section 11-1105 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by chapter 279 of  the  laws  of  2010,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  Traps  set  for  taking wildlife shall bear the name and residence
 address or the assigned identification number of the operator legibly at
 all times, provided, that state, county and  municipal  law  enforcement
 agencies  shall have access to the name, address and telephone number of
 such operator who was assigned such identification number. They shall be
 visited once in each twenty-four hours, except  TRAPS  in  the  Northern
 Zone  [where they] AND TRAPS SET IN WATER WHICH shall be visited once in
 each forty-eight hours or a shorter interval of no less than twenty-four
 hours as the department may, by regulation, require,  and  all  wildlife
 held captive shall immediately be removed from the traps.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02507-01-1

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