Assembly Actions -
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Jan 04, 2012 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Jan 27, 2011 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Assembly Bill A3801
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
ENGLEBRIGHT
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Barbara Clark
Felix Ortiz
multi-Sponsors
William Colton
Jeffrey Dinowitz
Sandy Galef
Carl Heastie
2011-A3801 (ACTIVE) - Details
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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