New York Laws
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) to recommend to the regional boards such policies and procedures
for the carrying out of fish and wildlife management practices as it
deems appropriate;
(2) to keep the several regional boards informed of the activities and
experience of all other regional boards in the state and to facilitate
an interchange of advice and experience between such regional boards and
cooperation between them, and to provide advice and assistance in
coordinating the programs of the several regional boards.
c. The state board may submit to the commissioner, recommendations
with respect to matters delegated by statute to the department in any
case where a statute or regulation of the department may affect the
carrying out of fish and wildlife management practices under this
section.
9. Cooperation agreements.
a. The commissioner shall have power, through his representative, to
enter into an agreement in writing with an owner or lessee of rural
lands or waters lying within a fish and wildlife management region or an
interest in such lands or waters, or with two or more such owners or
lessees who agree jointly and severally, for furnishing of services and
benefits as provided in subdivision 10, in exchange for and subject to
the condition that such owner or lessee, or owners or lessees, adopt and
carry out for a specified period of time, upon such premises or
specified parts thereof, one or more of the fish and wildlife management
practices adopted by the regional board.
b. The commissioner shall provide standard forms for such cooperation
agreements.
c. The agreement shall state the period during which it shall be in
force and may provide for renewal. It may also provide for termination
before the expiration of such period, and for the conditions upon which
and the manner in which any privilege of termination may be exercised.
d. Without limitation by paragraph c or by any term of the agreement
pursuant to paragraph c the failure of a cooperator, or of any one of
two or more cooperators who agree jointly and severally, to perform his
agreement shall relieve the commissioner and the state from the
obligation to furnish the services and benefits provided for in
subdivision 10.
10. State assistance.
a. Upon the establishment of such region, the commissioner may, and
upon organization of the regional board, the commissioner shall provide
personnel from the department to assist the boards and the cooperators
within the region.
b. The commissioner shall furnish to cooperators:
(1) technical services;
(2) trees and shrubs from any of the nurseries operated by the
department without charge at the nursery, to the extent and subject to
the conditions specified in the agreement with the cooperator;
(3) a subscription, without cost, to the New York State
Conservationist magazine.
c. The commissioner may also furnish to cooperators such further
technical assistance, labor and materials, as may be required in
compliance with practices approved by the region and authorized by order
of the commissioner.
d. The commissioner may also furnish to premises covered by an
agreement and to fish and wildlife upon such premises such protection by
way of posting, patrol by environmental conservation officers or forest
rangers, inspection or checking stations, fire patrols or other
appropriate means, within the limitation of appropriations and of the
manpower available as may be advisable in his judgment to protect fish

and wildlife resources, provide for public safety and encourage the
opening of private lands and waters to public hunting and fishing; but
neither this subdivision nor any provision of any agreement pursuant to
this section shall be deemed to constitute an undertaking by the state
or the department on its behalf to furnish such posting, patrol or
protection and neither such agreement nor any provision of the Fish and
Wildlife Law shall be deemed to create a ground of liability of the
state for damage to person or property caused by the failure or neglect
of the state or its agents, officers or employees to furnish such
posting, patrol or protection.
e. The agreement with the cooperator may provide for use by him for
purposes compatible with its function in wildlife management, of any
structure or facility created or maintained on his premises with funds
of the department, or for furnishing to him the incidental products of
any activity conducted on his premises for purposes of wildlife
management.