Bill Text: NY A05139 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires residential property owners to register backyard chicken coops for the purposes of containing disease outbreaks affecting such chicken coops.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - referred to agriculture [A05139 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A05139-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5139 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to regis- tration of backyard chicken coops The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new 2 section 387 to read as follows: 3 § 387. Backyard chicken coop registration. 1. Any person who owns a 4 chicken coop on their residential property shall register such chicken 5 coop with the municipality in which their property is located on a form 6 to be prescribed by the commissioner. Such registration shall be 7 conducted within thirty days of establishing such chicken coop. 8 2. Municipalities shall regularly send an updated list of all regis- 9 tered residential chicken coops to the New York farm bureau. The New 10 York farm bureau shall create and maintain an online database of all 11 registered residential chicken coops in the state and shall contact all 12 residential property owners listed in such database upon the documented 13 outbreak of disease affecting residential chicken coops. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08056-01-5
