Bill Text: NY S06853 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides the department of environmental conservation with the authority to allow proven-effective methods for wildlife damage management.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-30 - referred to environmental conservation [S06853 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06853-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6853--A
            Cal. No. 313
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     August 16, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  DeFRANCISCO,  VALESKY  --  read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
          recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in  accord-
          ance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  -- reported favorably from said
          committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
          reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place in the
          order of third reading
        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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