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--B
                   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,
          DAVILA,  GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ERRIGO, GIGLIO, HEVE-
          SI, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Agriculture
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said  commit-
          tee  with  amendments, 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  or  lender contingent on the
     7  purchaser making payments under such contract. Provided, however,  noth-
     8  ing  in this section shall prohibit the purchase of a dog or cat through
     9  an unsecured personal loan, nor be construed to limit the enforcement of
    10  other provisions of this article, article twenty-six-a of  the  agricul-
    11  ture  and  markets  law  or other rights or remedies which are otherwise
    12  available to all parties under any other law.
    13    § 2. Subdivision 1-a of section 755 of the general  business  law,  as
    14  added by chapter 259 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    15    1-a.  Any  person  who violates any provision of section seven hundred
    16  fifty-three-a, seven hundred fifty-three-b, [or]  seven  hundred  fifty-
    17  three-c,  or  seven  hundred  fifty-three-e  of this article may also be
    18  subject to denial, suspension, revocation of, or refusal to renew a  pet
    19  dealer  license,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions of sections four
    20  hundred three and four hundred four of the agriculture and markets law.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14227-07-8