Cock Goblin Research & Safety Council
Volunteer archive and public bulletin office · Bethlehem, Pa.
Within the Council record, most legal and regulatory contact concerns ordinary jurisdiction: drainage access, nuisance wildlife, trespass, zoning, records retention, and responsibility for public infrastructure. No special status is claimed for an unidentified animal.
A property owner sought permission for a permanent observation blind beside a mapped stormwater easement after repeated nighttime activity. The township denied the structure on setback and drainage-access grounds, without reaching the applicant’s stated purpose.
On appeal, the blind was replaced by removable equipment. Council policy now discourages permanent structures at repeat sites.
A borough animal-control officer declined a request to enter a culvert after determining that no domestic animal, injured wildlife, or immediate public hazard was visible. Public Works separately closed the access point for inspection.
The resulting correspondence is the source of the Council’s rule that cryptid classification does not create animal-control jurisdiction.
The Lower Mauch Chunk attractant restriction was amended to clarify that processed meat and food waste may not be placed within municipal drainage easements after sunset. Legislative records cite nuisance animals and blocked maintenance access.
Council submissions were acknowledged in the hearing packet but were not adopted as legislative findings.
County counsel advised that volunteer investigators have no special right of entry onto posted land, utility property, culverts, or stormwater infrastructure. Permission from a witness does not extend to adjacent public works property.
This memorandum is reproduced in current field training.
Is it protected? No. An unresolved classification does not create a protected species. The ordinary wildlife and cruelty statutes apply in full to any conventional animal you meet in the course of fieldwork, which in practice is the only kind you are going to meet.
Can investigators go in? Not without lawful access. The Council authorises no trespass, no entry into drainage systems, and no interference with utility property. A witness's permission covers the witness's land and stops at the fence.
Who actually responds? Emergency services to hazards and injuries. Animal control within its statutory authority and not one inch beyond it. The property owner or public works to infrastructure. We document. We have no enforcement authority of any kind and have never claimed any.
Administrative action is not treated as evidence for or against a reported encounter. Related external records are indexed separately on the Paper Trail.
administrative record revised September 2026. Not legal advice.