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Jan 09, 2012 |
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Senate Bill S6166
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C) 60th Senate District
2011-S6166 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A9173
- Current Committee:
- Senate Environmental Conservation
- Law Section:
- Environmental Conservation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง11-1105, En Con L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014:
S3563, A1105
2015-2016: S4038, A1016
2017-2018: A264
2019-2020: A3609
2021-2022: A5199
2023-2024: A4394
2011-S6166 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6166 TITLE OF BILL: 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 PURPOSE: Exempts traps set in water from the requirement that they be visited once every 24 hours. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 11-1105 of Environmental Conservation law is amended to exempt traps set in water from the requirement of being visited every twenty-four hours. JUSTIFICATION: Trapping in New York State is not only a pastime for some, but is also a method of animal population control and offers economic benefits to the producers and consumers of food and products from the wild game industry. Throughout New York State, there are fourteen species of furbearing animals. When trapping animals such as mink, beaver, muskrat and otter, water trapping is a method commonly used.
2011-S6166 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6166 I N S E N A T E January 9, 2012 ___________ 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: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 11-1105 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 279 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 1. Traps set for taking wildlife shall bear the name and residence address or the assigned identification number of the operator legibly at all times, provided, that state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies shall have access to the name, address and telephone number of such operator who was assigned such identification number. They shall be visited once in each twenty-four hours, except TRAPS in the Northern Zone [where they] AND TRAPS SET IN WATER WHICH shall be visited once in each forty-eight hours or a shorter interval of no less than twenty-four hours as the department may, by regulation, require, and all wildlife held captive shall immediately be removed from the traps. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13476-01-1
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