What's happening
This bill exempts water-set animal traps from the requirement to be checked every 24 hours, allowing up to 48 hours.
Why it matters
Extending the trap-check interval for water-set traps could make trapping less burdensome for trappers. , especially those working in remote or challenging locations where daily access is difficult. This may encourage more participation or reduce operational costs.
Potential animal welfare concerns may arise because trapped animals could remain in traps for up to 48 hours instead of 24. , increasing the risk of prolonged stress, injury, dehydration, or predation for non-target or target species.
Wildlife management practices could be impacted. , as longer intervals between trap checks may affect the timely removal of captured animals, complicating population monitoring, data collection, or enforcement of humane trapping standards.
The bill aligns water-set trap regulations with those already in place for the Northern Zone. , potentially creating more consistency statewide, but also raising questions about whether longer intervals are appropriate across different ecological regions and seasons.
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Ease Trapping Visit Rules
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
264
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 5, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, HAWLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to exempting traps set in water from the requirement of being visited every twenty-four hours
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 11-1105 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 279 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
1. Traps set for taking wildlife shall bear the name and residence address or the assigned identification number of the operator legibly at all times, provided, that state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies shall have access to the name, address and telephone number of such operator who was assigned such identification number. They shall be visited once in each twenty-four hours, except traps in the Northern Zone [where they] and traps set in water which shall be visited once in each forty-eight hours or a shorter interval of no less than twenty-four hours as the department may, by regulation, require, and all wildlife held captive shall immediately be removed from the traps.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02736-01-7
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