STATE OF NEW YORK
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3542
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 24, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife
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 trap so that wildlife when caught is suspended; (c) use,
7 locate or set a snare or a device consisting of a noose of any material
8 whereby an animal may be taken, provided however that the department
9 may, by regulation, authorize the use of live restraint cable devices to
10 take wildlife.
11 § 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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