STATE OF NEW YORK
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54--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, GALLAGHER, LEVENBERG, ROSENTHAL, MAMDA-
NI, BORES, SIMON, HEVESI, BURDICK, CONRAD, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, KAY, ROME-
RO, LUPARDO, SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
amended on third reading, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on
the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to prohibiting the
use of adhesive-based rodent traps in state-owned or state-leased
buildings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
2 148 to read as follows:
3 § 148. Adhesive-based rodent traps; prohibition. 1. For the purposes
4 of this section, "adhesive-based trap" shall mean any device that is
5 designed or is capable of being used to capture a rodent by means of an
6 adhesive substance, including devices commonly known as glue traps, glue
7 boards, and any similar rodent trap.
8 2. Beginning one year after the effective date of this section and
9 thereafter, no adhesive-based trap shall be set, placed or used to
10 capture or destroy a rat, mouse or other rodent in any state-owned or
11 state-leased building.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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