Bill Text: CA SB1480 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Trapping.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2012-09-26 - In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending. [SB1480 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1480-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1480	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 23, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 5, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 15, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 29, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 2, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 9, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Hill)
   (Coauthors: Senators Hancock and Lieu)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Sections 4004 and 4006 of, to amend, repeal, and
add Sections 4005, 4007, and 4008 of, and to add Sections 4013, 4014,
and 4155 to, the Fish and Game Code, relating to trapping.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1480, Corbett. Trapping.
   (1) Existing law, except as specified, requires every person,
other than a fur dealer, who traps fur-bearing mammals or nongame
mammals, designated by the Fish and Game Commission, or who sells raw
furs of those mammals, to have a trapping license from the
Department of Fish and Game. Certain persons taking mammals injurious
to growing crops or other property are exempted from the trapping
license requirement, except those persons providing trapping services
for profit are required to obtain a trapping license from the
department.
   This bill, commencing July 1, 2013, would establish 2 classes of
trapping licenses. The bill would authorize a person who has complied
with all applicable licensing and license renewal requirements to
trap wildlife for recreation or fur to be issued a class I trapping
license. The bill, commencing July 1, 2013, would authorize specified
persons trapping wildlife for a profit be issued a class II trapping
license. The bill, commencing July 1, 2013, would require the
department to publish a list of class II trapping licensees on its
Internet Web site. The bill would authorize the commission to issue a
formal warning or suspend a license when a licensee is found, after
a duly noticed hearing, to have published inconsistent information on
wildlife diseases, as specified.
   The bill would require the commission to establish a base fee for
a class II trapping license, in an amount sufficient to recover all
reasonable administrative, implementation, and enforcement costs of
the department and commission relating to the license, and would
require the commission to implement this fee structure on or before
July 1, 2013. The bill, commencing July 1, 2013, would make
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, revenues of those
class II trapping license fees to fund reimbursement of the
department and commission for the reasonable costs of the
administration, implementation, and enforcement of provisions of law
relating to class II trapping licenses and of regulations adopted
pursuant to those provisions.
   The bill, commencing July 1, 2013, would require a class II
trapping licensee to make a reasonable effort, as defined, to
determine whether dependent young are present within a home or
business premise and to prevent orphaning young animals as a
consequence of trapping and killing the mother. The bill, commencing
July 1, 2013, would further require class II trapping licensees to
provide clients with a written contract, containing prescribed
information, prior to setting traps.
   (2) Existing law, except as expressly provided, makes any
violation of the Fish and Game Code, or any rule, regulation, or
order made or adopted under that code, a misdemeanor. Existing law
makes certain actions relating to trapping unlawful.
   The bill also would make it unlawful to kill any trapped mammal by
listed methods or to solicit trapping services business from the
public for reasons of health or safety pursuant to specified laws.
The bill also would prohibit the trapping of bats, except where
expressly authorized under specified circumstances. By specifying
these new Fish and Game Code violations, thereby defining new crimes,
this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   (3) Existing law, except as specified, prohibits the taking or
possession of nongame mammals, as defined. Existing law authorizes
the department to enter into cooperative agreements with state and
federal agencies for the purpose of controlling harmful nongame
mammals.
   This bill would authorize the department to enter into cooperative
agreements with a special district or a state or local agency having
responsibility for levee maintenance for the purpose of controlling
nongame mammals to maintain irrigation, water supply, drainage, and
flood control works.
   (4) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4004 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   4004.  It is unlawful to do any of the following:
   (a) Use a trap with saw-toothed or spiked jaws.
   (b) Use or sell leghold steel-jawed traps with a spread of 51/2
inches or larger without offset jaws.
   (c) Use steel-jawed traps larger than size 11/2 or with a spread
larger than 47/8 inches for taking muskrat.
   (d) Set or maintain traps which do not bear a number or other
identifying mark registered to the department or, in the case of a
federal, state, county, or city agency, bear the name of that agency,
except that traps set pursuant to Section 4152 or 4180 shall bear an
identifying mark in a manner specified by the department. No
registration fee shall be charged pursuant to this subdivision.
   (e) Fail to visit and remove all animals from traps at least once
daily. If the trapping is done pursuant to Section 4152 or 4180, the
inspection and removal shall be done by the person who sets the trap
or the owner of the land where the trap is set or an agent of either.

   (f) (1) Use a steel leghold trap with a spread exceeding 71/2
inches or conibear killer-type trap that is larger than 6 inches by 6
inches, unless partially or wholly submerged in water. Unless
prohibited by the department as a permit condition, a lawfully set
conibear killer-type trap that is 10 inches by 10 inches or less may
be set in a managed wetland area.
   (2) Any killer-type trap set on publicly owned land or land
expressly open to public use shall be posted with a sign containing
the following language in lettering that is a minimum of three inches
high and visible from a distance of 100 feet: Danger! Keep Dogs Out!
Lethal Traps Set for Wildlife.
   (g) Set or maintain steel leghold traps within 30 feet of bait
placed in a manner or position so that it may be seen by any soaring
bird. As used in this subdivision, "bait" includes any bait composed
of mammal, bird, or fish flesh, fur, hide, entrails, or feathers.
   (h) Set or maintain steel leghold traps with a spread of 51/2
inches or larger without a tension device.
   (i) Kill any trapped mammal in accordance with this section by
intentional drowning, injection with any chemical not sold for the
purpose of euthanizing animals, or thoracic compression, commonly
known as chest crushing. This subdivision shall not be construed to
prohibit the use of lawfully set conibear traps set partially or
wholly submerged in water or set in a managed wetland habitat area
for beaver or muskrat or the use of lawfully set colony traps set in
water for muskrat.
   (j) Solicit trapping business from the public for reasons of
health or safety or any reason other than damage to crops or property
under a class II license, pursuant to Section 4152, 4180, or 4011.
   (k) (1) Trap bats, except that nets may be used when necessary for
nonlethal protection of property damage or for protection of human
health or safety. Nets and exclusion are the only lawful methods of
removing bats from a structure. Except as provided for in paragraph
(2), bats may be excluded only outside of the periods during which
nonflying young are present and when bats are in torpor or
hibernation. This subdivision shall not affect a person possessing a
scientific collector's permit, pursuant to Section 1002 or 2081.
   (2) Bats may be excluded to protect human health or safety. If
nonflying young bats will die within the structure as a result of
exclusion, or if the bats are in torpor or hibernation, then the
owner may only exclude those bats in accordance with both of the
following:
   (A) If there are holes or cracks in a structure that allow bats to
enter the human-occupied interior area of the structure, it is the
responsibility of a property owner, designated agent, or licensee to
seal or screen or otherwise close these holes to prevent bats from
entering the human-occupied interior area of the structure. If the
property owner, designated agent, or licensee is unable to seal,
screen, or otherwise close the holes or cracks that allow bats to
enter the human-occupied interior area of the structure, the property
owner, designated agent, or licensee shall contact the nearest
regional office of the department prior to taking any action to
exclude the bats.
   (B) If a property owner, designated agent, or licensee contacts a
regional office of the department to report that bats are entering
the human-occupied interior area of the structure and is unable to
seal those access points that allow bats entry, the department may
refer the party that contacts the department to an employee with
specialized knowledge of bats. The department may request that the
property owner, designated agent, or licensee grant permission for a
department employee to enter the affected structure to identify the
species of bat, whether the bat has protected status, the size of the
colony, and other factors that may help the department reduce the
threat of death to a protected species of bat as a result of the
exclusion. The department shall allow the exclusion of bats when
preventing bats from entering the human-occupied interior area of the
structure would impose a significant burden on the owner of the
structure. The department may prohibit the exclusion of bats if
preventing bats from entering the human-occupied interior area of the
structure would not impose a significant burden on the owner of the
structure.
   (3) For purposes of this subdivision, the following terms have the
following meanings:
   (A) "Exclusion" means a method of allowing an animal to leave an
area but not return.
   (B) "Protection of human health or safety" means preventing direct
human contact with bats within any structure.
   (C) "Torpor or hibernation" means a period in which the consistent
weekday temperature remains consistently under 50 degrees Fahrenheit
for seven consecutive days except as otherwise authorized by the
department.
  SEC. 2.  Section 4005 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:

   4005.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every
person, other than a fur dealer, who traps fur-bearing mammals or
nongame mammals, designated by the commission or who sells raw furs
of those mammals, shall procure a trapping license. "Raw fur" means
any fur, pelt, or skin that has not been tanned or cured, except that
salt-cured or sun-cured pelts are raw furs.
   (b) The department shall develop standards that are necessary to
ensure the competence and proficiency of applicants for a trapping
license. No person shall be issued a license until he or she has
passed a test of his or her knowledge and skill in this field.
   (c) Persons trapping mammals in accordance with Section 4152 or
4180 are not required to procure a trapping license except when
providing trapping services for profit.
   (d) Raw furs taken by persons providing trapping services for
profit shall not be sold.
   (e) The license requirement imposed by this section does not apply
to any of the following:
   (1) Officers or employees of federal, county, or city agencies or
the department, when acting in their official capacities, or officers
or employees of the Department of Food and Agriculture when acting
pursuant to the Food and Agricultural Code pertaining to pests or
pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 6021) of Chapter 9 of
Part 1 of Division 4 of the Food and Agricultural Code.
   (2) Structural pest control operators licensed pursuant to Chapter
14 (commencing with Section 8500) of Division 3 of the Business and
Professions Code, when trapping rats, mice, voles, moles, or gophers.

   (3) Persons and businesses licensed or certified by the Department
of Pesticide Regulation pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with
Section 11701) and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 12201) of
Division 6 of, and Chapter 3.6, (commencing with Section 14151) of
Division 7 of, the Food and Agricultural Code, when trapping rats,
mice, voles, moles, or gophers.
   (f) Except for species that are listed pursuant to Chapter 1.5
(commencing with Section 2050) of Division 3 or Chapter 8 (commencing
with Section 4700), nothing in this code or regulations adopted
pursuant thereto shall prevent or prohibit a person from trapping any
of the following animals:
   (1) Gophers.
   (2) House mice.
   (3) Moles.
   (4) Rats.
   (5) Voles.
   (g) Notwithstanding Section 12156, the commission may issue a
formal warning or suspend a license when a licensee is found, after a
duly noticed public hearing, to have published information about
wildlife diseases that is inconsistent with the information about
wildlife diseases published by the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention or by the department. The commission may
consider other sources of information as appropriate.
   (h) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and, as
of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 3.  Section 4005 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:
   4005.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every
person, other than a fur dealer, who traps fur-bearing mammals or
nongame mammals, designated by the commission or who sells raw furs
of those mammals, shall procure a trapping license. "Raw fur" means
any fur, pelt, or skin that has not been tanned or cured, except that
salt-cured or sun-cured pelts are raw furs.
   (b) The department shall develop standards that are necessary to
ensure the competence and proficiency of applicants for a trapping
license. No person shall be issued a license until he or she has
passed a test of his or her knowledge and skill in this field.
   (c) Persons trapping mammals in accordance with Section 4152 or
4180 are not required to procure a trapping license except when
providing trapping services for profit.
   (d) (1) A person who has complied with all applicable licensing
and license renewal requirements to trap wildlife for recreation or
fur may be issued a class I trapping license.
   (2) A person who has passed the trapping license test established
by the department in 2004, or the most recent test developed for
persons trapping depredating wildlife for a profit in accordance with
Section 4152 or 4180 and complied with all applicable license
renewal requirements, may be issued a class II trapping license. The
department shall publish at least annually on the Internet Web site
of the department, in the manner it deems appropriate, a list of
class II licensee that includes each licensees' name, permanent trap
number, and business name.
   (3) A trapping license shall be renewed only for the category of
license that is currently possessed.
   (e) Raw furs taken by persons providing trapping services for
profit shall not be sold.
   (f) The license requirement imposed by this section does not apply
to any of the following:
   (1) Officers or employees of federal, county, or city agencies or
the department, when acting in their official capacities, or officers
or employees of the Department of Food and Agriculture when acting
pursuant to the Food and Agricultural Code pertaining to pests or
pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 6021) of Chapter 9 of
Part 1 of Division 4 of the Food and Agricultural Code.
   (2) Structural pest control operators licensed pursuant to Chapter
14 (commencing with Section 8500) of Division 3 of the Business and
Professions Code, when trapping rats, mice, voles, moles, or gophers.

   (3) Persons and businesses licensed or certified by the Department
of Pesticide Regulation pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with
Section 11701) and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 12201) of
Division 6 of, and Chapter 3.6, (commencing with Section 14151) of
Division 7 of, the Food and Agricultural Code, when trapping rats,
mice, voles, moles, or gophers.
   (g) Except for species that are listed pursuant to Chapter 1.5
(commencing with Section 2050) of Division 3 or Chapter 8 (commencing
with Section 4700), nothing in this code or regulations adopted
pursuant thereto shall prevent or prohibit a person from trapping any
of the following animals:
   (1) Gophers.
   (2) House mice.
   (3) Moles.
   (4) Rats.
   (5) Voles.
   (h) Notwithstanding Section 12156, the commission may issue a
formal warning or suspend a license when a licensee is found, after a
duly noticed public hearing, to have published information about
wildlife diseases that is inconsistent with the information about
wildlife diseases published by the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention or by the department. The commission may
consider other sources of information as appropriate.
   (i) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2013.
  SEC. 4.  Section 4006 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:

   4006.  (a) A class I trapping license shall be issued as follows:
   (1) To any resident of this state over the age of 16 years upon
payment of a base fee of forty-five dollars ($45), as adjusted under
Section 713.
   (2) To any resident of this state under the age of 16 years upon
payment of a base fee of fifteen dollars ($15), as adjusted under
Section 713.
   (3) To any person not a resident of this state upon payment of a
base fee of two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225), as adjusted under
Section 713.
   A license shall not be issued to a nonresident if the state in
which he or she resides does not provide for issuance of a
nonresident trapping license to California residents. Also, a
nonresident issued a license under this subdivision may take only
those species, and may take or possess only that quantity of a
species that a resident of California may take or possess under a
nonresident trapping license or permit in the state of residence of
that nonresident.
   (b) (1) The commission shall establish a base fee for a class II
trapping license, in an amount sufficient to recover all reasonable
administrative, implementation, and enforcement costs of the
department and commission relating to the license and shall implement
this fee structure on or before July 1, 2013. The fee imposed
pursuant to this subdivision shall be adjusted pursuant to Section
713. A fee for a class II license issued prior to the implementation
of the class II fee structure required by this subdivision shall be
governed by the fee structure of subdivision (a).
   (2) Revenues of the license fees imposed pursuant to paragraph (1)
shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund
reimbursement of the department and commission for the reasonable
costs of the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the
provisions of this code relating to class II trapping licenses and of
regulations adopted pursuant to those provisions.
  SEC. 5.  Section 4007 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:

   4007.  (a) A trapping license authorizes the person to whom it is
issued to take, during the open season, fur-bearing mammals and
nongame mammals for a term of one year from July 1st, or if issued
after the beginning of that term, for the remainder of the term and
to sell the raw fur of these mammals.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and, as
of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 6.  Section 4007 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:
   4007.  (a) A class I trapping license authorizes the person to
whom it is issued to take, during the open season, fur-bearing
mammals and nongame mammals for a term of one year from July 1st, or
if issued after the beginning of that term, for the remainder of the
term and to sell the raw fur of these mammals.
   (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2013.
  SEC. 7.  Section 4008 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:

   4008.  (a) A trapping license shall not be renewed unless the
applicant has submitted to the department a sworn statement showing
the number of each kind of fur-bearing mammals and nongame mammals
taken under the previous license and the names and addresses of the
persons to whom the furs were shipped or sold.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and, as
of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 8.  Section 4008 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:
   4008.  (a) A trapping license shall not be renewed unless the
applicant has submitted to the department a sworn statement showing
the number of each kind of fur-bearing mammals and nongame mammals
taken under the previous license. A class I trapping licensee shall
provide the names and addresses of the persons to whom furs were
shipped or sold.
   (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2013.
  SEC. 9.  Section 4013 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:
   4013.  (a) A class II trapping licensee shall make a reasonable
effort to determine whether dependent young are present within a home
or business premise and to prevent orphaning young animals as a
consequence of trapping and killing the mother. "Reasonable effort"
is defined as taking steps to ascertain whether dependent young
animals are present, including, but not limited to, any of the
following:
   (1) Using the natural history information that is included in the
class II trapping license application examination, including
consideration of the time of year.
   (2) Requesting information from the potential client that would
indicate whether dependent young animals are present, such as infant
vocalization, sounds in the early morning or daytime in a localized
area, and other sounds and activity commonly associated with young
being present.
   (3) Conducting a visual inspection of the area where sounds or
activity have been reported when areas that may have well-hidden
young can be thoroughly inspected visually.
   (4) Monitoring an entry point with a paper block, tracking powder,
surveillance, or recording device to determine whether the entry is
disturbed on a daily basis, indicating a mother returning to her
young.
   (5) Using a heat sensor, portable motion-activated camera, or
other monitoring, recording, surveillance, or other technology.
   (6) Affixing a holding cage across an entry point of a structure
to visually confirm whether a lactating female is present. Holding
cages should be checked on a priority basis within the lawful 24-hour
trap check requirement period pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section
4004. When feasible, double-opening holding cages should be set to
identify whether a lactating female, sleeping separately from her
young during weaning, is returning to her young during her natural
foraging period. A single-opening holding cage should be removed if
it is observed that a struggle to enter has occurred.
   (7) Other methods of identifying whether young dependent animals
are present.
   (b) A lactating female animal shall not be killed, and traps shall
not be set, except as provided in paragraph (6) of subdivision (a),
if young animal sounds have been reported or it is known or suspected
that dependent young animals exist on the premises and the young are
inaccessible within the structure.
   (c) If a licensee determines that young dependent animals are
present, the licensee shall use lawful and humane methods that
encourage the mother to relocate the young from the area from which
the licensee is trying to remove the animals. One-way doors may be
installed when the young are confirmed to be leaving and returning to
the natal den, and the entry points may be sealed when monitoring
confirms that the mother and young have left the natal den and no
further activity is occurring.
   (d) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2013.
  SEC. 10.  Section 4014 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:

   4014.  (a) Class II trapping licensees that provide trapping
services for profit pursuant to Section 4152 or 4180 shall provide
each client with a written contract prior to setting traps. A copy of
each contract shall be retained for three years and made available
upon request by the department.
   (b) The written contract shall contain the following information
and disclosures and shall be printed in at least 12-point typeface
beginning on and continuing from the upper half of the first page of
the contract:

   California law requires consumers to be provided with the
following information and disclosures prior to traps being set when
hiring wildlife trapping services.
     µ  Name and current contact information of the person setting a
trap.
     µ  The current year's trapping license number of the individual
setting a trap and the business name under which the services are
provided.
     µ  "It is only lawful to trap wildlife for a profit in
California if damage to crops or property has occurred. Animals
posing a risk to human health or safety may only be taken by
specified government officials (Sections 4011, 4152, and 4180 of the
Fish and Game Code)."
     µ  "This is a description of the property damage as confirmed by
the licensed trapper through visual inspection:
     __________________________________________."
     µ  "This is the target animal or species responsible for the
damage:
     __________________________________________."
     µ  "All furbearing and nongame mammals that are legal to trap
must be immediately killed or released on site. Unless released,
trapped animals shall be killed by shooting where local ordinances,
landowners, and safety permit (Section 465.5(g)(1) of Title 14 of the
California Code of Regulations)."
     µ  "Nontarget animals are defined as those animals that become
accidentally trapped, but are not responsible for the documented
property damage. These animals must be immediately released."
     µ  "Traps must be inspected and all animals removed at least
once each day by the licensed trapper, the person hiring the trapper,
or an agent thereof, pursuant to Sections 4152 and 4180 of the Fish
and Game Code."
     µ  "This is the name and telephone number of the person charged
with checking the traps each day:
__________________________________________."
     µ  "A reasonable effort must be made to prevent orphaning
dependent animal young. It is prohibited to set traps for an animal
when young are inaccessible or to kill a lactating female animal if
young are inaccessible within a structure such as a home or business
as a consequence of trapping and killing the mother (Section 4013 of
the Fish and Game Code). A reasonable effort includes, but is not
limited to, (a) requesting information about sounds and activity that
would indicate young animals are present, (b) inspecting the area
where sounds or activity is occurring, and (c) monitoring an access
point for evidence of a mother returning daily to her young (Section
4013 of the Fish and Game Code)."
     µ  "The following methods of dispatching trapped mammals are
prohibited: drowning, chest crushing, or injection with any chemical
not sold for the purpose of animal euthanasia (Section 4004 of the
Fish and Game Code)."
     µ  An identifying tag issued by the Department of Fish and Game
is required to be affixed to every trap that is set (Section 465.5(g)
(1) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations).
     µ  A person shall not trap a bat. Bats may be excluded to
protect property except when nonflying young bats are present or when
bats are in torpor or hibernation. Bats may be excluded when
necessary to protect human health or safety when nonflying young bats
are present or when bats are in torpor or hibernation if preventing
bats from entering the human-occupied interior area of the structure
would impose a significant burden on the owner of the structure, and
when the exclusion is otherwise in compliance with the provisions of
subdivision (k) of Section 4004 of the Fish and Game Code.
     µ  Printed name, address, and signature of client:
     __________________________________________.
     µ  Printed name and signature of licensed trapper who will be
placing traps:
     __________________________________________.
     µ  The signed contract must be amended after the work is
completed with the following language: The following is a true and
accurate list of each animal (by species) trapped at this address,
the date each animal was removed, and the final disposition of the
removed animal.
   Species Trapped: _________________________________
   Date: __________________________________________
   Final disposition: ________________________________

   (c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2013.
  SEC. 11.  Section 4155 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:

   4155.  The department may enter into cooperative agreements with a
special district or a state or local agency having responsibility
for levee maintenance for the purpose of controlling harmful nongame
mammals to maintain irrigation, water supply, drainage, and flood
control works.
  SEC. 12.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.