Best practices for nuisance wildlife control operators in New York State

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Ch 3: Section two: State laws related to wildlife control

Environmental Conservation Law (ECL)

Regulatory agency: DEC

Applicable to: all New Yorkers. The sections that are most relevant to NWCOs are 11-0524, 11-0521, 11-0523, 11-0511, 11-0513, 11-0525, 11-0505, 11-0507, 11-0917, 11-1105 and 11-1101

License required: The NWCO license is required for certain activities (such as transporting wildlife) and to handle protected species.

Read the law:
online—http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/cl=37. Read the appropriate sections of Article 11, Titles 5, 9, 11
print—ECL Ch. 43-B of Consolidated Laws, Article 11 Titles 5, 9, 11

To check the legal status of a wildlife species in New York: http://www.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/spplist.pdf

The Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) is the primary state law that regulates the activities of NWCOs. (For your reference, the full text of the appropriate sections of the ECL are included at the end of this chapter.) On July 30, 2002 Governor Pataki signed a new law about nuisance wildlife control, ECL 11-0524, which gave the DEC the authority to set new regulations and license conditions.

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