A10193 would amend New York’s General Business Law to prohibit adhesive-based rodent traps, including glue traps, glue boards, and similar devices. The bill defines key terms such as manufacturer, distributor, retailer, exterminator, and adhesive-based trap, and it applies to sales and shipments made through retail stores, catalogs, mail, telephone, internet, and other electronic means.
The bill creates a phased ban. Immediately upon the effective date, it would bar the shipment, importation, delivery, transport, sale, and acquisition of adhesive-based traps in New York, with limited transitional allowances. One year after the effective date, it would also prohibit possession, use, sale, offer for sale, distribution, and purchase of these traps for both commercial and personal use, while allowing retailers to sell existing inventory and exterminators to use existing stock for one year after enactment. The act would take effect 90 days after becoming law.
If enacted, the bill would add a new section 399-tt to the General Business Law and effectively eliminate the commercial market and consumer use of adhesive-based rodent traps in New York. It would regulate manufacturers, distributors, retailers, common carriers, exterminators, and individual users, and would reach interstate, intrastate, and foreign shipments. The measure would also create a short wind-down period for existing retail inventory and pest-control professionals before the full prohibition on possession and use takes effect.
The available context suggests generally supportive sentiment, with the bill introduced by multiple Assembly sponsors and referred to the Committee on Economic Development without any recorded votes or committee transcript opposition in the provided materials. The bill’s framing as a prohibition on glue traps indicates a likely animal-welfare and humane-pest-control rationale, and the absence of recorded dissent in the supplied history suggests no documented controversy in the available record.
The main points of contention likely concern the scope of the ban and its effect on pest-control practices. Retailers and manufacturers may object to the prohibition on sale and shipment, while exterminators may be concerned about losing a tool used in rodent control. Another possible issue is enforcement and the breadth of the possession/use ban, which extends to personal and commercial use after the transition period. Supporters would likely emphasize humane treatment of animals and the availability of alternative rodent-control methods.