Bill Text: NY S07415 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the leasing of companion animals; prohibits using companion animals as security for a contract.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-24 - SIGNED CHAP.272 [S07415 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S07415-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7415--C Cal. No. 1322 IN SENATE January 16, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MARCELLINO, HAMILTON, KRUEGER, MARCHIONE, MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said commit- tee, ordered to first report, amended on first report, ordered to a second report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report 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. LBD14227-08-8
