Bill Text: NY S07415 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-24 - SIGNED CHAP.272 [S07415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07415-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7415--B
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 16, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  MARCELLINO,  HAMILTON,  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
        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.
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