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NY S02953
Bill
Status
4/22/2015
Primary Sponsor
Robert Ortt
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AI Summary
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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.
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Prohibits use of live restraint cable devices in Westchester, Rockland, Richmond, Suffolk, and Nassau counties.
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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.
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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