STATE OF NEW YORK
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9137--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, TITONE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental
Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 northern
11 zone. These regulations shall include live cable restraint devices
12 consisting of at least one swivel, a relaxing lock, a deer stop, and a
13 break away device. For the purposes of this provision:
14 (1) a swivel is a device incorporated at the end of the cable
15 restraint which allows the captured animal to freely rotate;
16 (2) a relaxing lock is a device that allows the cable loop to stop
17 restricting when the captured animal stops pulling;
18 (3) a deer stop is a device incorporated into the loop of the cable
19 restraint that keeps the cable restraint from closing beyond a specified
20 circumference to allow deer that may encounter the restraint to escape;
21 and
22 (4) a break away device allows the loop of the cable restraint to
23 break open when a specified amount of force is applied.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Trappers using live cable restraint devices must complete a training
2 course in their construction and use offered by the department.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
4 deemed repealed February 16, 2017.
