Bill Text: NY A03179 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring individuals and businesses who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial services for profit to use a facility that is in compliance with New York state laws.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-06 - print number 3179b [A03179 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3179--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 24, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Consumer  Affairs  and  Protection  --  committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring indi-
         viduals  and  businesses  who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial
         services for profit use a facility that is in compliance with New York
         state laws
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  750-b  of  the general business law, as added by
    2  chapter 526 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 750-b. License required. [On and after July  thirty-first,  nineteen
    4  hundred  ninety-three,  no person shall engage for a fee in the business
    5  of operating a pet cemetery  or  pet  crematorium  or  hold  himself  or
    6  herself out as being able so to do unless he or she is licensed therefor
    7  pursuant  to this article] NO INDIVIDUAL, BUSINESS, OR ENTITY SOLICITING
    8  PET CREMATION OR BURIAL SERVICES FOR PROFIT, SHALL KNOWINGLY  OFFER  THE
    9  SERVICES  OF A CREMATORY OR CEMETERY THAT IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE STATE
   10  IN WHICH SUCH INDIVIDUAL, BUSINESS OR ENTITY OPERATES TO ENGAGE IN  SUCH
   11  ACTIVITIES.  Nothing  [herein]  IN  THIS SECTION shall prohibit a person
   12  licensed in accordance with the provisions of this article from  employ-
   13  ing  individuals  to  assist  in  the operation of a pet cemetery or pet
   14  crematorium.
   15    S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 750-s of the general  business  law,  as
   16  amended  by  chapter  123  of  the  laws  of 1993, is amended to read as
   17  follows:
   18    1. Each person who gives to a veterinarian or a pet cemetery owner  or
   19  pet  crematorium  owner  a  pet  for  disposal shall be provided by such
   20  veterinarian or pet cemetery owner or pet crematorium owner with  a  pet
   21  disposal  disclosure  document,  in  form  approved  by the secretary of
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  state, which shall set forth the alternative methods  of  pet  disposal,
    2  the  cost  of  each such method of pet disposal, if available, [and] the
    3  nature of or place in which each method of disposal will be carried out,
    4  AND NOTICE THAT ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY PROVIDING PET DISPOSAL SERVICES
    5  OUTSIDE  OF NEW YORK IS SUBJECT TO REGULATION BY THE STATE IN WHICH SUCH
    6  INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY IS LOCATED. The veterinarian or  the  pet  cemetery
    7  owner  or  the  pet crematorium owner, as the case may be, shall give to
    8  the person who completes the form a copy of the form and retain  a  copy
    9  of  said form. If the person completing the form chooses to have the pet
   10  disposed of by a pet cemetery or pet crematorium and makes the  arrange-
   11  ments  therefor  through  a veterinarian, the veterinarian shall provide
   12  the person with the name, location and telephone number of the pet ceme-
   13  tery or pet crematorium so that the person may obtain information  about
   14  the  pet cemetery or pet crematorium. The veterinarian shall also ensure
   15  that a copy of the pet disposal form accompanies  the  pet  when  it  is
   16  removed from the veterinarian's office.
   17    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.