Bill Text: NY A01672 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits contracts for the purchase or financing of a dog, cat, or rabbit from including provisions allowing repossession of the animal; provides that such provisions apply to the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits through an online website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - referred to agriculture [A01672 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01672-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1672

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          contracts  for the purchase or financing of a dog, cat, or rabbit from
          including provisions allowing repossession of the animal

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  753-e  of  the general business law, as added by
     2  chapter 272 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 753-e. Prohibited contracts. No contract for the purchase of  a  dog
     4  [or  a], cat, or rabbit, or the financing of such purchase shall include
     5  any provisions which authorize the use of a dog [or a], cat,  or  rabbit
     6  as  security  where  such dog [or], cat, or rabbit may be repossessed by
     7  the seller or lender contingent on the purchaser making  payments  under
     8  such contract. Provided, however, nothing in this section shall prohibit
     9  the purchase of a dog [or], cat, or rabbit through an unsecured personal
    10  loan,  nor  be construed to limit the enforcement of other provisions of
    11  this article, article [twenty-six-a] twenty-six-A of the agriculture and
    12  markets law or other rights or remedies which are otherwise available to
    13  all parties under any other law.  The provisions of this  section  shall
    14  also  apply  to  the  sale  of  a  dog, cat, or rabbit through an online
    15  website.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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