Exempts traps set in water from the requirement that they be visited once every 24 hours; such traps shall be visited once every 48 hours or a shorter interval as determined by the department of environmental conservation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6166
IN SENATE
January 9, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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
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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