Bill Text: NY A10082 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the leasing of companion animals; prohibits using companion animals as security for a contract.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-14 - substituted by s7415c [A10082 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10082-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10082--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 14, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. TITONE, JEAN-PIERRE, D'URSO, MOSLEY, L. ROSEN-
          THAL,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  ORTIZ,  M. G. MILLER,  DINOWITZ,  RA,  MONTESANO,
          MURRAY,  McDONOUGH,  NIOU,  GUNTHER, WILLIAMS, WEPRIN, COLTON, NORRIS,
          BYRNE, GLICK, BLAKE,  COOK,  SKOUFIS,  BRABENEC,  O'DONNELL,  WOERNER,
          SEPULVEDA,  DAVILA  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ERRIGO, GIGLIO,
          HEVESI, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Agricul-
          ture  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  certain  lease
          agreements concerning dogs and cats
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  753-e to read as follows:
     3    § 753-e. Prohibited contracts.  No contract for the purchase of a  dog
     4  or  a cat or the financing of such purchase shall include any provisions
     5  which authorize the use of a dog or a cat as security where such dog  or
     6  cat  may be repossessed by the seller contingent on the purchaser making
     7  payments under such  contract.    Provided,  however,  nothing  in  this
     8  section shall prohibit the purchase of a dog or cat through an unsecured
     9  personal  loan,  nor  be  construed  to  limit  the enforcement of other
    10  provisions of this article, article twenty-six-a of the agriculture  and
    11  markets law or other rights or remedies which are otherwise available to
    12  all parties under any other law.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14227-04-8