Bill Text: NY A01205 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to administrative hearings and processes as they apply to pet dealers.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-05 - substituted by s3955a [A01205 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A01205-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1205--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, MARKEY, TITONE, KAVANAGH, JAFFEE, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, MILLER, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to adminis- trative hearings and processes for pet dealers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 404 of the agriculture and 2 markets law, as added by chapter 259 of the laws of 2000, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 4. Before any license shall be suspended or revoked, the commission- 5 er, or any hearing officer he or she may designate, shall hold a hear- 6 ing, upon due notice to the licensee, in accordance with any regulations 7 promulgated by the department and in accordance with articles three and 8 four of the state administrative procedure act. WHERE A LICENSEE HAS 9 THREE CONSECUTIVE INSPECTIONS IN WHICH THE LICENSEE HAS FAILED TO 10 CORRECT DEFICIENCIES OF A CRITICAL NATURE, PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, THE 11 COMMISSIONER SHALL HOLD A HEARING TO CONSIDER THE SUSPENSION OR REVOCA- 12 TION OF THE PET DEALER LICENSE. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT 13 THE COMMISSIONER FROM TAKING ADDITIONAL ACTIONS AS OTHERWISE PERMITTED 14 BY THIS SECTION REGARDING SUCH LICENSES PRIOR TO THE OCCURRENCE OF THREE 15 CONSECUTIVE INSPECTIONS IN WHICH THE LICENSEE HAS FAILED TO CORRECT 16 DEFICIENCIES OF A CRITICAL NATURE. 17 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day 18 after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04486-08-3