STATE OF NEW YORK
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                    IN SENATE
                                     January 7, 2016
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        Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the state law, in relation to designating working dogs
          as the official state dog
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 90 of the state law, as added by chapter 571 of the
     2  laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  90.  State dog. The [service] working dog shall be the official dog
     4  of the state.  ["Service dog" shall have the same meaning as  set  forth
     5  in  section  one  hundred eight of the agriculture and markets law.] For
     6  the purposes of this section, "working dog" shall mean: (a) a guide dog,
     7  a police work dog, a war dog, a hearing dog, a service  dog,  a  working
     8  search dog, a therapy dog, or a detection dog as those terms are defined
     9  by  section  one hundred eight of the agriculture and markets law or any
    10  dog that has met such definition during its life; or (b) any dog that is
    11  trained to herd and/or protect livestock or control bird and/or wildlife
    12  populations and is actually or has been used for such purposes.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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