Bill Text: NY A02616 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits licensing to only pet dealers which sell animals obtained from shelters and rescue organizations.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A02616 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02616-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2616
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 24, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNE,
          D'URSO, GLICK, LIFTON, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to limiting
          licensing  to  only pet dealers which sell animals obtained from shel-
          ters and rescue organizations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 403 of the agriculture and markets law is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. No pet dealer  shall  display,  sell,  deliver,  offer  for  sale,
     4  barter,  auction,  give away, broker or otherwise transfer or dispose of
     5  an animal unless it is obtained from:
     6    (a) an animal shelter;
     7    (b) a private, nonprofit humane society  or  nonprofit  animal  rescue
     8  organization; or
     9    (c)  an  animal  shelter, nonprofit humane society or nonprofit animal
    10  rescue organization that operates out of or in  connection  with  a  pet
    11  dealer.
    12    Nothing  shall prevent a pet dealer from providing space and appropri-
    13  ate care for animals owned by an animal shelter, nonprofit humane socie-
    14  ty or nonprofit animal rescue agency and maintained by a pet dealer  for
    15  the purpose of adopting those animals to the public.
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02170-01-9