Loading chat...

NY S02953

Bill

Status

Engrossed

4/22/2015

Primary Sponsor

Robert Ortt

Click for details

Origin

Senate

2015-2016 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Amends environmental conservation law to permit the Department of Environmental Conservation to authorize the use of live restraint cable devices to take coyote and other species by regulation.

  • Prohibits use of live restraint cable devices in Westchester, Rockland, Richmond, Suffolk, and Nassau counties.

  • Maintains existing prohibitions on leg-gripping traps with teeth, leg-hold traps that suspend wildlife, and snares, except as allowed for destructive and menacing wildlife under specified sections.

  • Requires regulations governing live cable restraint devices to be established by the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Legislative Description

Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.

Last Action

COMMITTED TO RULES

6/17/2016

Committee Referrals

Rules6/17/2016
Environmental Conservation3/9/2016
Environmental Conservation1/6/2016
Environmental Conservation4/22/2015
Environmental Conservation1/30/2015

Full Bill Text

No bill text available