Assembly Bill A1518

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting the sale, trade or bartering or possession with intent to sell, trade or barter of certain wild animals or wild animal products and to the penalties imposed therefor

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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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2021-A1518 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-0536, 71-0924 & 71-0927, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11359
2019-2020: A1111

2021-A1518 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prohibiting the sale, trade or bartering or possession with intent to sell, trade or barter of certain wild animals or wild animal products and to the penalties imposed therefor.

2021-A1518 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1518
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, GLICK, WEPRIN, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED,
   EPSTEIN,  SEAWRIGHT, FERNANDEZ, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting  the sale, trade or bartering or possession with intent to
   sell, trade or barter of certain wild animals or wild animal  products
   and the penalties imposed therefor
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1  of  section  11-0536  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 338 of the laws of 2009, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Except as provided in subdivision three hereof, no part of the skin
 or body, whether raw or manufactured, of the following species  of  wild
 animals  or  the animal itself may be sold, TRADED, BARTERED, or offered
 for sale, OR POSSESSED WITH INTENT TO SELL, TRADE OR BARTER by any indi-
 vidual, firm, corporation, association or partnership within  the  state
 of  New York:--Leopard (Panthera pardus), Snow Leopard (Uuncia), Clouded
 Leopard (Neofelis  nebulosa),  Tiger  (Panthera  tigres),  Asiatic  Lion
 (Panthera leo persica), Cheetah (Acinoyx jubatus), Alligators, Caiman or
 Crocodile of the Order Crocodylia (except as provided in subdivision two
 of this section), tortoises of the genus Gopherus, marine turtles of the
 family  Cheloniidae and the family Dermochelidae, Vicuna (Vicugna vicug-
 na), Wolf (Canis lupus), Red Wolf (Canis niger), or  Tasmanian  Forester
 Kangaroo  (Macropus  giganteus  tasmaniensis)  or Polar Bear (Thalarctos
 maritimus), Mountain Lion, sometimes  called  Cougar  (Felis  Concolar),
 Jaguar  (Panthera  onca),  Ocelot  (Felis  pardalis),  or  Margay (Felis
 wiedii),  [Sumatran  Rhinoceros  (Dicerorhinus  sumatrensis),  or  Black
 Rhinoceros  (Dicero  bicornis)]  RHINOCEROS  (RHINOCEROTIDAE) OR GIRAFFE
 (GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS).

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00786-01-1
              

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