Bill Text: NY A00547 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the definitions of pet dealers; decreases the number of animals a person can distribute to fit under the exemption.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A00547 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00547-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           547

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, ROSENTHAL, DiPIETRO, WEPRIN, GLICK, MIKU-
          LIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law and the general business
          law, in relation to the definition of pet dealer

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 400 of the  agri-
     2  culture  and markets law, as amended by chapter 553 of the laws of 2022,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to  the  consumer
     5  fewer  than  [twenty-five]  fifteen  animals  per year that are born and
     6  raised on the breeder's residential premises;
     7    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of  section  752  of  the  general
     8  business  law, as amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 2017, is amended
     9  to read as follows:
    10    (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to  the  consumer
    11  fewer  than  [twenty-five]  fifteen  animals  per year that are born and
    12  raised on the breeders residential premises.
    13    § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision   3 of section 752  of  the  general
    14  business  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 683 of the laws   of   2022, is
    15  amended to read as follows:
    16    (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to  the  consumer
    17  fewer  than  [twenty-five]  fifteen  animals  per year that are born and
    18  raised on the breeders residential premises.
    19    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that  the  amendments  to
    21  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 3 of section 752 of the general business
    22  law made by section three of this act shall take effect on the same date
    23  and in the same manner as chapter 683 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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