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NY Env Conserv L § 11-0515 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0515 - Licenses to Collect, Possess or Sell for Propagation, Scientific or Exhibition Purposes.

§ 11-0515. Licenses   to  collect,  possess  or  sell  for  propagation,scientific or exhibition purposes.1. The department may issue to any person a license revocable  at  its   pleasure  to collect or possess fish, wildlife, shellfish, crustacea, or   aquatic  insects,  birds'  nests  or  eggs  for  propagation,   banding,   scientific  or exhibition purposes. The department in its discretion may   require an applicant to pay a license fee of ten dollars, and to file  a   bond  of two hundred dollars to be approved by the department that he or   she will not violate any provisions of this article. Each licensee shall   file with the department a report containing  such  information  as  the   department may require. Such license shall be in force for one year only   and shall not be transferable.2.  The  department may also issue a license revocable at its pleasure   to possess and sell protected fish, wildlife,  shellfish,  crustacea  or   aquatic  insects for propagation, scientific or exhibition purposes. The   department in its discretion may require a license fee of  ten  dollars.   Such  license  shall  be  in  force  for  one year only and shall not be   transferable. Each licensee shall file  with  the  department  a  report   containing  such  information  as  the  department  may  require.  Fish,   wildlife, shellfish, crustacea or  aquatic  insects  lawfully  possessed   under  this  section  may  be  sold  at  any  time  by  the licensee for   propagation, scientific or exhibition purposes only.3. The department may  also  issue  a  revocable  license  to  possess   distressed  wildlife  for  rehabilitation  purposes.  The department may   adopt regulations concerning the qualifications, appointment and  duties   of  wildlife  rehabilitators and the procedures for license issuance and   revocation.4. The department shall have power to make regulations  governing  the   possession  of  such  fish,  wildlife,  shellfish, crustacea and aquatic   insects to protect them from cruelty, disease or undue discomfort and to   protect the public from attack or contamination.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0517 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0517 - Taking for Propagation and Stocking; Fish Hindering Propagation of Food Fish or Shellfish.

§ 11-0517. Taking   for   propagation   and   stocking;  fish  hinderingpropagation of food fish or shellfish.1. The department may take, or  it  may  permit  any  person  to  take   wildlife  for propagation or stocking purposes, or fish or shellfish for   propagation purposes.2. It may also remove, or permit to be removed, in any manner  it  may   prescribe, from either public or private waters, fish or shellfish which   hinder  the  propagation  of  food  fish  or  shellfish, or which are in   imminent danger of being killed by pollution or otherwise. Such fish  or   shellfish shall be disposed of as the department may direct.3.  No person shall take fish within one hundred feet of any leader or   net operated by the department or permitted under subdivisions 1 or 2 of   this section and  fish  confined  therein  shall  be  handled  or  taken   therefrom only by an employee of the department or by the permittee.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0519 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0519 - Disposition of Fish, Wildlife, Game, Shellfish, Crustacea or Protected Insects Seized by or Surrendered to Enforcement Officers.

§ 11-0519. Disposition  of fish, wildlife, game, shellfish, crustacea orprotected insects seized by or surrendered  to  enforcementofficers.1.  When  any  fish,  game,  wildlife,  shellfish,  crustacea  or part   thereof, or any protected insect, or any bird plumage, isa. seized by an enforcement officer as provided in section 71-0907 and   it is thereafter determined that the possession thereof, by  the  person   from  whom  it  was seized, was unlawful under any provision of the Fish   and Wildlife Law or regulation pursuant thereto; orb. found in or released from  a  trap,  snare,  net  or  other  device   constituting  a  nuisance  which  the officer is authorized summarily to   abate as provided in section 71-0915; orc. surrendered to an enforcement officer for disposition by any person   having lawful custody or possession; possession thereof shall be  deemed   vested  in  the department on behalf of the state. All such things shall   be disposed of as may be determined by the enforcement officer,  subject   to law and any applicable regulations of the department.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0521 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0521 - Destructive Wildlife; Taking Pursuant to Permit.

§ 11-0521. Destructive wildlife; taking pursuant to permit.1.  The  department may direct any environmental conservation officer,   or issue a permit to any person,  to  take  any  wildlife  at  any  time   whenever  it  becomes  a  nuisance,  destructive  to  public  or private   property or a threat to public health  or  welfare,  provided,  however,   that  where  such  wildlife  is  a  bear, no such permit shall be issued   except upon proof of damage to such property or threat to public  health   or  safety presented to the department. Upon presentation of such proof,   the department may  issue  a  permit  authorizing  the  use  of  trained   tracking  dogs  pursuant to section 11-0928 of this article, and, if the   department has determined that  no  other  alternative  is  feasible,  a   separate permit to take the bear. Wildlife so taken shall be disposed of   as  the  department  may  direct.  Any  person,  agency,  corporation or   municipality who obtains a migratory bird depredation  permit  or  order   issued  by  the federal department of the interior pursuant to 50 C.F.R.   13 and 50 C.F.R. 21, as may be amended from time to time, shall  not  be   required  to  obtain  a  permit  from  the  department  to  conduct  the   authorized activities.2. The department may, by permit issued to a  landowner,  permit  such   landowner,  and  any person he may designate in writing as his agent, to   take beaver on lands  owned  by  the  permittee,  during  any  specified   period,   in   any   specified  number,  and  by  any  specified  means,   notwithstanding the provision contained in paragraph d of subdivision  3   of  section 11-0901 or any other provision of the Fish and Wildlife Law.   Beaver so taken shall be disposed of as the department may direct.3. Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed  as  requiring  or   obligating  the  department  to  issue  a  permit to take wildlife or to   direct the taking of any wildlife when  in  its  opinion  the  nuisance,   destruction  of property or threat to public health and welfare will not   be effectively abated thereby.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0524 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0524 - Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators.

§ 11-0524. Nuisance wildlife control operators.1. No person shall charge a fee to take, possess, transport or release   wildlife  whenever  it  becomes  a nuisance pursuant to section 11-0505,   11-0507, 11-0521, or 11-0523 of this title unless such person  has  been   issued a nuisance wildlife control operator license by the department.2.  No  person  shall be issued a license by the department under this   section  unless  he  or  she  provides  evidence  satisfactory  to   the   department,  that  he  or  she  has  completed nuisance wildlife control   training. In addition to any other requirements of the department,  such   training shall include training in site evaluation, methods of resolving   common  nuisance  wildlife  problems,  including,  but  not  limited to,   non-lethal methods; exclusion methods; habitat modification; and capture   and handling techniques.3. The department may issue  a  revocable  nuisance  wildlife  control   operator license and adopt regulations concerning the qualifications for   such  license  and  the  terms  and conditions of such license provided,   however,  that  any  such  regulations,  terms  and  conditions  include   training requirements consistent with subdivision two of this section.4.  The  fee for a nuisance wildlife control operator license shall be   fifty dollars paid annually to be deposited  in  the  conservation  fund   established  pursuant  to section eighty-three of the state finance law,   provided, however, that a municipality shall not be subject to this fee.5. Any person licensed pursuant to this section shall submit  annually   a  report  to  the  department  which  specifies  each client's name and   address, the date  work  was  performed,  the  species  controlled,  the   abatement  method  used,  the  disposition  of the animal, and any other   information as required by the department. The department shall annually   update a list  of  nuisance  wildlife  control  operators  and  make  it   available to the public in both printed and electronic formats.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0525 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0525 - Control of Rabies in Wildlife.

§ 11-0525. Control of rabies in wildlife.1. Whenever the disease rabies occurs in any area of the state and the   infection  of  wild  foxes or other wildlife populations is certified to   exist therein by the joint determination of the Departments  of  Health,   Agriculture    and   Markets   and   Environmental   Conservation,   and   certification is made to the Commissioner of Environmental  Conservation   by  the  Commissioners of Health and of Agriculture and Markets that the   health and welfare of the human population or the health and welfare  of   domestic  livestock are in danger therefrom, the department is thereupon   authorized and directed to undertake through  the  use  of  professional   trappers or by other means such fox control or wildlife control measures   in  the  certified  area  as  in  its judgment will eliminate, reduce or   confine the disease.2. Such control measures shall be continued until the Commissioners of   Health, Agriculture and Markets  and  Environmental  Conservation  shall   jointly determine that control measures should be terminated.3.  Necessary  expenses  for  such  control  work shall be financed by   moneys made available by appropriation or otherwise  to  the  department   out  of moneys in the state treasury, in the general fund, to the credit   of the state purpose fund not otherwise appropriated.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0527 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0527 - State Aid to Counties Participating in Control of Rabies in Wildlife.

§ 11-0527. State  aid  to counties participating in control of rabies inwildlife.1. The board of supervisors or county legislative body of  any  county   may appropriate moneys for the purpose of controlling the disease rabies   in wildlife.2.  Any county situated in an area wherein the infection of wild foxes   or other wildlife populations is  certified  to  exist  with  danger  to   health  and  welfare,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of section   11-0525, may submit a plan for joint approval by the  state  departments   of  Health,  Agriculture  and Markets and Environmental Conservation for   the purposes of eliminating, reducing or confining the  disease  rabies.   If  such  plan,  or  a  modification  of  such plan, is approved by such   departments and is duly carried out by any  such  county  in  accordance   with   such   regulations  as  may  be  adopted  by  the  Department  of   Environmental Conservation (which regulations when adopted shall be made   a part of such plan) then such county shall be reimbursed by  the  state   to  the  extent  of fifty per centum of the amount by it expended in the   execution of such plan; provided, however, that  such  reimbursement  to   any  county  shall  not  exceed six thousand dollars in any state fiscal   year.3. A county shall not be reimbursed for any moneys expended by it  for   the payment of bounties for the taking of wildlife.4.  Not  later  than  the  last  day  of  each  of the months of June,   September, December and March the county treasurer of each  such  county   which  has  been certified under section 11-0525 and approved under this   section, and has incurred expenditures pursuant  to  the  provisions  of   this  section during the three months' period ending on such days, shall   make a report to the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation  of  the   amount of such expenditures and apply for the state reimbursement herein   authorized.5.  Such report and application shall be in such form and contain such   information as may be required  by  the  Commissioner  of  Environmental   Conservation.  The  commissioner shall thereupon promptly certify to the   comptroller for payment the amount of state reimbursement due the county   thereon. The amounts so certified by the Commissioner  of  Environmental   Conservation,  after  audit  by  and  on the warrant of the Comptroller,   shall be paid to the county treasurers of  the  respective  counties  to   which   such   reimbursement  is  due,  from  any  moneys  available  by   appropriation therefor. No reimbursement shall be made for  expenditures   incurred  by any county after such time as the Departments of Health and   Agriculture and Markets shall have certified that danger to  health  and   welfare from the disease rabies no longer exists in such county.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0529 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0529 - Cats Hunting Birds; Dogs Pursuing Deer or Killing Other Wildlife in Certain Areas.

§ 11-0529. Cats  hunting  birds;  dogs  pursuing  deer  or killing otherwildlife in certain areas.1. Any person over the age of twenty-one years  possessing  a  hunting   license may, and environmental conservation officers and peace officers,   acting  pursuant  to  their  special  duties,  or  police officers shall   humanely destroy cats at large found hunting or  killing  any  protected   wild  bird  or  with  a  dead  bird  of  any  protected  species  in its   possession.2. Every environmental conservation officer, forest ranger and  member   of the state police may kill any dog (a) pursuing or killing deer within   the  Adirondack  or Catskill parks, at any time; (b) pursuing or killing   any game or wildlife on a state-owned game farm or wildlife  refuge;  or   (c)  pursuing or killing any game or wildlife on a state-owned or leased   wildlife management area, except a dog being legally  used  for  hunting   small game or for dog training.3.  Every  park patrolman, park ranger and member of the state police,   county police and town police may kill any dog pursuing or killing  deer   within any state park or state park reservation at any time.4. At any time (a) any environmental conservation officer, dog warden,   forest  ranger or member of the state police, anywhere in the state, (b)   any member of any town police within the limits of  the  town  of  which   such  member  is  an  officer,  (c) any member of the Westchester County   Parkway police on any park, parkway or reservation owned  or  controlled   by  the  county  of  Westchester  or (d) any member of a police force or   department of any county, city, town or village in which such member has   jurisdiction and is regularly employed may  kill  any  dog  pursuing  or   killing deer and any coyote killing a domestic animal.5.  No  action for damages shall lie against any authorized person for   the killing of a cat, dog or coyote as provided in this section.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0531 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0531 - Bounties Prohibited.

§ 11-0531. Bounties prohibited.Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, or any other law,   rule  or  regulation  to  the  contrary,  it  shall  be unlawful for any   department or division of  this  state,  or  any  political  subdivision   thereof to pay bounties on the taking of wildlife, except when the state   Department  of Health, or any local health authorities, determine that a   given type or class of animals constitute a health hazard as carriers or   potential carriers of disease.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0533 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0533 - Licensing of Guides.

§ 11-0533. Licensing of guides.1.  As  used in this section, the term "guide" shall mean a person who   offers services for hire  part  or  all  of  which  includes  directing,   instructing,  or  aiding  another  in fishing, hunting, camping, hiking,   white water canoeing, rafting or rock and ice climbing.2. All guides engaging in the business of guiding  on  all  lands  and   waters  of  the  state shall possess a license issued by the department,   except for any persons operating or assisting upon a public  vessel  for   hire  (passenger  carrying vessels), licensed by the United States Coast   Guard or New York state, upon the Atlantic Ocean and  all  other  marine   and  coastal  waters,  tidal waters including the Hudson river up to the   Troy barrier dam, St. Lawrence river,  Great  Lakes  and  the  navigable   portion  of their tributaries, and other navigable waters, as determined   by the department.3. Except while guiding for the purposes of hunting and/or fishing, no   license as defined in section 11-0701 is required for such acts.4. Employees of children's camps as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of   section  one  thousand  four  hundred  of the public health law shall be   exempt from the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this  section,   provided  such  activities  are  carried  out  within  the scope of said   employment.5. A license as required under subdivision two of this  section  shall   be issued for a period of five calendar years and the fee therefor shall   be established by the department, not to exceed two hundred dollars.6.  Every  licensed guide while engaged in guiding shall wear in plain   sight identification furnished by the department. Licensed guides  shall   be  at  least eighteen years of age. They shall be skilled in the use of   boats and canoes whenever use of these craft is required  and  shall  be   persons  competent  to  guide  one  or  more  of the following: camping,   hunting, fishing, hiking, white  water  canoeing/rafting,  rock  or  ice   climbing or other similar activities. The department shall by regulation   establish standards and procedures for testing and licensing of guides.7.  Any  licensed  guide who violates any provision of this chapter or   who makes any false statement in his application for a license shall  in   addition  to  any  other penalties, immediately surrender his license to   the department, which may be revoked by the department  for  up  to  one   year following the date of such surrender.8. The department shall publish a list of guides annually.
NY Env Conserv L § 11-0535 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife Title 5 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program; Prohibitions; Taking of Fish, Wildlife, Shellfish and Crustacea for Scientific Or 11-0535 - Endangered and Threatened Species, Species of Special Concern.

§ 11-0535. Endangered   and   threatened  species,  species  of  specialconcern.1. For the purposes of this section, "endangered species"  shall  mean   those  species  of fish, shellfish, crustacea and wildlife designated by   the department, by regulation filed with  the  Secretary  of  State,  as   seriously  threatened  with  extinction, "threatened species" shall mean   those species of fish and wildlife  designated  by  the  department,  by   regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are likely to become   endangered  species  within  the  foreseeable future throughout all or a   significant portion of their range, and  "species  of  special  concern"   shall  mean  those  species  of  fish  and  wildlife  designated  by the   department, by regulation filed with the Secretary of State,  which  are   found  by  the  department  to  be at risk of becoming threatened in New   York. Such regulation shall include, but not be limited  to,  endangered   and  threatened  species  as  so  designated  by  the  Secretary  of the   Interior, provided, however, that  such  regulation  shall  take  effect   sixty  days  after  it  has  been filed with the Secretary of State, and   provided, further, that any  endangered  or  threatened  species  as  so   designated  by  the  Secretary  of  the Interior shall be subject to the   restrictions  of  this  section,  regardless  of  the  removal  of  such   designation  as  an endangered or threatened species by the Secretary of   the Interior. The commissioner may  exclude  any  such  species  as  the   commissioner   may   determine  after  investigation  to  be  no  longer   endangered or threatened from the restrictions of this section.2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this  chapter,  the  taking,   importation,  transportation,  possession  or  sale of any endangered or   threatened species of fish, shellfish, crustacea or wildlife,  or  hides   or  other  parts  thereof, or the sale or possession with intent to sell   any article made in whole or in part from the skin, hide or other  parts   of any endangered or threatened species of fish, shellfish, crustacea or   wildlife  is  prohibited,  except  under  license  or  permit  from  the   department.3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department   may promulgate regulations to the taking,  importation,  transportation,   possession  or  sale of any species of special concern as the department   deems necessary for the proper protection of such species.