Bill Text: NY S06166 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-09 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S06166 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06166-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6166
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 9, 2012
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       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:
    1    Section  1.    Subdivision  1  of section 11-1105 of the environmental
    2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 279 of  the  laws  of  2010,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    1.  Traps  set  for  taking wildlife shall bear the name and residence
    5  address or the assigned identification number of the operator legibly at
    6  all times, provided, that state, county and  municipal  law  enforcement
    7  agencies  shall have access to the name, address and telephone number of
    8  such operator who was assigned such identification number. They shall be
    9  visited once in each twenty-four hours, except  TRAPS  in  the  Northern
   10  Zone  [where they] AND TRAPS SET IN WATER WHICH shall be visited once in
   11  each forty-eight hours or a shorter interval of no less than twenty-four
   12  hours as the department may, by regulation, require,  and  all  wildlife
   13  held captive shall immediately be removed from the traps.
   14    S 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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