New York Environmental Conservation Law Title 5 - FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES COOPERATIVE PROGRAM; PROHIBITIONS; TAKING OF FISH, WILDLIFE, SHELLFISH AND CRUSTACEA FOR SCIENTIFIC OR

• 11-0501 - Fish and Wildlife Management Practices Cooperative Program.
  1. Purpose. The cooperative program provided in this section is authorized for the purpose of obtaining on the privately owned or leased lands and waters...
• 11-0503 - Polluting Streams Prohibited.
  1. No dyestuffs, coal tar, refuse from a gas house, cheese factory, creamery, condensary or canning factory, sawdust, shavings, tan bark, lime, acid, oil or...
• 11-0505 - Interference With Fish and Wildlife.
  1. a. Except as permitted by the department, no person shall obstruct the passage of fish in any stream or river by a screen or...
• 11-0507 - Liberation of Fish, Shellfish and Wildlife.
  1. Fish or fish eggs shall not be placed in any waters of the state unless a permit is first obtained from the department; but...
• 11-0509 - Water Chestnut.
  No person shall plant, transport, transplant or traffic in plants of the water chestnut or the seeds or nuts thereof nor in any manner cause...
• 11-0511 - Possession and Transportation of Wildlife.
  Subject to the provisions of section 11-0512 of this article, no person shall, except under a license or permit first obtained from the department containing...
• 11-0512 - Possession, Sale, Barter, Transfer, Exchange and Import of Wild Animals As Pets Prohibited.
  1. It shall be prohibited for any person to: a. knowingly possess, harbor, sell, barter, transfer, exchange or import any wild animal for use as...
• 11-0513 - Pigeons.
  1. No person shall at any time, by any means or in any manner capture, kill or attempt to capture or kill any Antwerp or...
• 11-0514 - Eurasian Boars Prohibited.
  1. For purposes of this section, "Eurasian boar" shall mean any subspecies, breed, or hybrid of swine recognized as Eurasian boar, Russian boar, wild boar,...
• 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,...
• 11-0517 - Taking for Propagation and Stocking; Fish Hindering Propagation 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...
• 11-0519 - Disposition of Fish, Wildlife, Game, Shellfish, Crustacea or Protected Insects Seized by or Surrendered to Enforcement Officers.
  1. When any fish, game, wildlife, shellfish, crustacea or part thereof, or any protected insect, or any bird plumage, is a. seized by an enforcement...
• 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...
• 11-0523 - Destructive or Menacing Wildlife; Taking Without Permit.
  1. Owners and lessees and members of their immediate families actually occupying or cultivating lands, and persons authorized in writing and actually employed by them...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 11-0527 - State Aid to Counties Participating in Control of Rabies in Wildlife.
  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....
• 11-0529 - Cats Hunting Birds; Dogs Pursuing Deer or Killing Other Wildlife 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 11-0535 - Endangered and Threatened Species, Species of Special Concern.
  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...
• 11-0535-a - Illegal Ivory Articles and Rhinoceros Horns.
  1. As used in this section: a. "Distribute" means a transfer or change in possession with an accompanying change in legal ownership. b. "Ivory article"...
• 11-0536 - Sale of Certain Wild Animals or Wild Animal Products Prohibited.
  1. Except as provided in subdivision three hereof, no part of the skin or body, whether raw or manufactured, of the following species of wild...
• 11-0537 - Bald and Golden Eagles; Prohibited Acts.
  It shall be unlawful to knowingly or with wanton disregard for the consequences of this act to take, possess, sell, purchase, barter, offer to sell,...
• 11-0538 - Direct Contact Between Public and Big Cats Prohibited.
  1. As used in this section: (a) "Big cat" shall mean any live species of lion (panthera leo), tiger (panthera tigres), leopard (panthera pardus) (with...
• 11-0539 - New York Natural Heritage Program.
  1. There is hereby established within the department the New York natural heritage program. The program is charged with: a. analyzing existing sources of information,...
• 11-0540 - Prohibition on Permits Authorizing the Use of Elephants in Entertainment Acts.
  * The department shall not issue any license or permit that would authorize the use of an elephant in an entertainment act pursuant to section...

Last modified: February 3, 2019