STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 372--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration there- of The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 11-1101 of the environmental 2 conservation law is amended to read as follows: 3 5. Except as provided in subdivision 1 or 2 of section 11-0523 of this 4 article with respect to destructive and menacing wildlife, no person 5 shall (a) set or use a trap of the leg-gripping type having teeth in the 6 jaws; (b) set a leg hold trap so that wildlife when caught is suspended; 7 (c) use, locate or set a snare or a device consisting of a noose of any 8 material whereby an animal may be taken, except the department may, by 9 regulation, authorize the use of live restraint cable devices to take 10 coyote and other species as allowed by the department in the state, 11 except in the following counties: Westchester, Rockland, Richmond, 12 Suffolk and Nassau. These regulations shall include live cable restraint 13 devices consisting of at least one swivel, a relaxing lock, a deer stop, 14 and a break away device. For the purposes of this provision: 15 (1) a swivel is a device incorporated at the end of the cable 16 restraint which allows the captured animal to freely rotate; 17 (2) a relaxing lock is a device that allows the cable loop to stop 18 restricting when the captured animal stops pulling; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04318-02-8

S. 372--A 2 1 (3) a deer stop is a device incorporated into the loop of the cable 2 restraint that keeps the cable restraint from closing beyond a specified 3 circumference to allow deer that may encounter the restraint to escape; 4 and 5 (4) a break away device allows the loop of the cable restraint to 6 break open when a specified amount of force is applied. 7 Trappers using live cable restraint devices must complete a training 8 course in their construction and use offered by the department. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 10 deemed repealed February 16, 2021.