Bill Text: NY A08646 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8646 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing cull permits to certified nuisance wildlife specialists; authorizes the department of environmental conservation, after a review of the site-specific wildlife management plan, and upon a finding that wildlife has become a nuisance, destructive to public or private property or a threat to public health or welfare, to issue a certified nuisance wildlife specialist a cull permit; defines terms.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-5)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-19 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08646 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8646--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    September 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. HUNTER, TITONE, D'URSO, MAGNARELLI, FAHY, LUPAR-
          DO, HAWLEY, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, McDONOUGH
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental  Conserva-
          tion  -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to wild-
          life damage management
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  11-0521 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as added by chapter 664 of the laws  of  1972  and  as
     3  renumbered  by  chapter  911  of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    3. The department may, by permit issued to an employee of  any  state,
     6  federal  or local government agency acting in their official capacity or
     7  to any person acting pursuant to a permit issued by the department under
     8  this section, exempt such employee or person from prohibitions contained
     9  in subdivision one of this  section,  subdivision  three  and  eight  of
    10  section  11-0505,  subdivision  two  of section 11-0901 and subdivisions
    11  two, four and five of section 11-0931 of this article only to the extent
    12  that such exemption or exemptions are expressly  provided  for  in  such
    13  permit.
    14    4. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring or obligat-
    15  ing  the  department to issue a permit to take wildlife or to direct the
    16  taking of any wildlife when in its opinion the nuisance, destruction  of
    17  property  or threat to public health and welfare will not be effectively
    18  abated thereby.
    19    § 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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