Disposition

What the code says you may do with the animal in the trap.

Disposition is an offline iPhone app for licensed nuisance-wildlife control operators. Pick a state and a species and it shows you the governing rule word for word, with its citation, the date it took effect, and the day the text was retrieved from the agency's own site.

It is a citation retriever, not an adviser. It quotes the code and tells you where each line came from. It does not tell you what to do, and it is not legal advice. Verify with your state agency before you act, and read the rule text rather than only the summary.

Which states are covered

This release covers 17 states. A state that is not in this list is not covered — which says nothing about what its rules require.

Colorado, New York and South Carolina are flagged PARTIAL inside the app: some of their rules could not be retrieved, so what you see for those states is incomplete on purpose and says so.

Reporting a rule that looks wrong or out of date

This is the most useful thing you can do, and it is welcome. Rules change and a corpus goes stale — users are the fastest amendment detector there is.

Every rule screen in the app has a Report a change to this rule button that opens a pre-filled email with the cell id, the state, the species and the citation already in it. Send it as-is, and if you can, add where the new text can be read.

You can also write directly to yiwenluo2ad@gmail.com.

How the text is checked

Every quoted line is verified against a stored copy of the primary source before each release. A quote that is not present in its source cannot ship — that is enforced by the build, not by good intentions. Where a state's code is silent on a point, the app says "not specified" and names the agency to call; it never fills the gap with a neighbouring state's rule or with an inference.

The Sources screen inside the app lists every document the corpus is built from, when it was retrieved, and a fingerprint of the exact text that was read.

Common questions

Does it work without a signal?

Yes. The entire corpus ships inside the app and nothing is fetched at runtime. It works in an attic, a crawlspace or a basement with no bars.

Why is my state missing?

Because its rules have not been read and verified yet. A state is only added once its primary sources can be retrieved and every quoted line checked against them. Some states publish their code in ways that cannot be read reliably, and a few ask that their sites not be fetched automatically; those are left out rather than guessed at.

Why does a rule say "not specified in code"?

Because the sources read for that release contain no provision on that point. That is not the same as "there is no rule" — it means this app will not invent one. The screen names the agency to contact.

Can I show this to a warden or a client?

Every rule screen has a Share button that sends the verdict, the quoted text, the citation, the effective date and the retrieval date together, with the disclaimer attached. Sharing a verdict without its source would undo the point of the app.

Contact

Email yiwenluo2ad@gmail.com. Please include your state and the citation you are asking about — it makes a useful answer much faster.