Senate Bill S4038

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Exempts traps set in water from the requirement that they be visited once every 24 hours

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S4038 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1016
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-1105, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S6166, A9173
2013-2014: S3563, A1105
2017-2018: A264
2019-2020: A3609
2021-2022: A5199
2023-2024: A4394

2015-S4038 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2015-S4038 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4038 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4038

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 26, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- 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.
                                                           LBD00988-01-5

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