2013 New York Consolidated Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 11 - FISH AND WILDLIFE
Title 5 - (11-0501 - 11-0539) FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES COOPERATIVE PROGRAM; PROHIBITIONS; TAKING OF FISH, WILDLIFE, SHELLFISH AND CRUSTACEA FOR SCIENTIFIC OR
11-0513 - Pigeons.

 
  § 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 homing pigeon, wearing
  a  ring or seamless leg band with its registered number stamped thereon;
  nor shall any person remove such mark. No person except the lawful owner
  shall detain, possess, or transport Antwerp or homing pigeons wearing  a
  ring or seamless leg band with the registered number thereon.
    2.   Notwithstanding   any  other  law  to  the  contrary,  the  local
  legislative body of any city, town or village, or in  the  city  of  New
  York  the  Department of Health may take or issue a permit to any person
  to  take  pigeons  at  any  time  and  in  any  humane  manner  in  such
  municipality,  whenever  such  body or administration finds that pigeons
  within such municipality are or may become a menace to public health  or
  a  public  nuisance; provided, however, that no pigeon may be taken in a
  manner which will endanger other animal life, persons or property.