Assembly Bill A3801

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Regulates the use of body-gripping traps and requires the posting of public land where trapping is permitted; repealer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A3801 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-0103, 11-1101 & 71-0921, rpld §71-0923 sub 10, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3400
2013-2014: A1754
2015-2016: A2010

2011-A3801 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of body-gripping traps within 100 feet of a public highway, public road, dwelling, school, playground, day care facility, place of worship, athletic field, or public bike paths, walking paths or hiking trails; prohibits the use of such traps within 500 feet of such facilities without the permission of the owner thereof; authorizes landowners to set traps within 100 feet of their own dwellings; requires that public lands where trapping is permitted to be posted with signs warning of such trapping

2011-A3801 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3801

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
  regulation  of  trapping;  and  to  repeal  subdivision  10 of section
  71-0923 of such law relating to the penalty for trapping near  certain
  buildings or facilities

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 11-0103 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
amended by adding a new subdivision 33 to read as follows:
  33.  "BODY-GRIPPING TRAP" SHALL MEAN A TRAP THAT GRIPS A MAMMAL'S BODY
OR BODY PART INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, STEEL-JAWED  LEGHOLD  TRAPS,
PADDED  LEGHOLD  TRAPS  AND    CONIBEAR TRAPS. CAGE AND BOX TRAPS, NETS,
SUITCASE-TYPE LIVE BEAVER TRAPS, AND COMMON MOUSE AND  RAT  TRAPS  SHALL
NOT BE CONSIDERED BODY-GRIPPING TRAPS.
  S  2.  Subdivisions  10 and 12 of section 11-1101 of the environmental
conservation law, subdivision 12 as added by chapter 586 of the laws  of
1991, are amended to read as follows:
  10. [Traps] BODY-GRIPPING TRAPS shall not be set or placed on a public
highway  OR PUBLIC ROAD, OR WITHIN ONE HUNDRED FEET OF A PUBLIC HIGHWAY,
PUBLIC ROAD, DWELLING, SCHOOL  BUILDING,  SCHOOL  PLAYGROUND,  DAY  CARE
FACILITY, PLACE OF WORSHIP, ATHLETIC FIELD, OR A PAVED OR MARKED BICYCLE
PATH, WALKING PATH OR HIKING TRAIL MAINTAINED BY THE STATE, OR ANY CITY,
TOWN, VILLAGE OR COUNTY.
  12.  [No person shall trap wildlife] (A) BODY-GRIPPING TRAPS SHALL NOT
BE SET within [one] FIVE hundred feet of a  dwelling,  school  building,
school  playground  [or  church],  DAY  CARE FACILITY, PLACE OF WORSHIP,
ATHLETIC FIELD, OR A PAVED OR  MARKED  BICYCLE  PATH,  WALKING  PATH  OR
HIKING  TRAIL  MAINTAINED  BY  THE  STATE, OR ANY CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE OR
COUNTY, without the written consent of the owner or lessee of the  prop-
erty where the trap is set.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07946-01-1
              

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