Provides that each county within the state may limit, restrict or prohibit trapping within its municipal limits; provides that municipalities may do so by local law or ordinance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5423
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 4, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- 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 muni-
cipalities regulating the use of traps
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 11-1111 to read as follows:
3 § 11-1111. Municipal regulation of trapping.
4 Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or of any other
5 law, rule or regulation, each county in the state may, by local law or
6 ordinance, restrict, limit or prohibit trapping within its municipal
7 limits. No provision of this section shall be deemed to prohibit the
8 department from exercising its emergency powers pursuant to section
9 11-0325 of this article in relation to the control of fish or wildlife
10 in the public interest to prevent the introduction or spread of disease.
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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