STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8431

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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
          requiring  nuisance wildlife control operators to disclose that eutha-
          nasia may be used to resolve a wildlife issue

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  11-0524 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding two new subdivisions 6 and 7 to read as follows:
     3    6. Before a nuisance wildlife control operator undertakes any  control
     4  measures,  such nuisance wildlife control operator shall provide, to the
     5  client, in writing, a statement indicating that euthanasia may  be  used
     6  as a method to resolve the wildlife issue.
     7    7.  The  department  is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations
     8  necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    10  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
    11  rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
    12  effective date are authorized to be made on  or  before  such  effective
    13  date.





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