Assembly Bill A2718

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for the licensing of pet grooming facilities; establishes standards of care and required record keeping

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A2718 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5341
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 29-CCC §§539 - 545, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9663

2023-A2718 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the licensing of pet grooming facilities; establishes standards of care and required record keeping.

2023-A2718 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2718
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to the licensing
   of pet grooming facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 29-CCC to read as follows:
 
                              ARTICLE 29-CCC
                    LICENSING OF PET GROOMING FACILITIES
 
 SECTION 539. DEFINITIONS.
         540. STANDARD OF CARE.
         541. RECORD KEEPING.
         542. LICENSE REQUIRED.
         543. LICENSE REFUSAL, SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION.
         544. INSPECTIONS.
         545. VIOLATIONS.
 
   § 539. DEFINITIONS. AS USED IN THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL
 HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1.  "PET"  MEANS  AN  ANIMAL AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION
 THREE HUNDRED FIFTY OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW.
   2. "PET GROOMING FACILITY" MEANS A BUSINESS PERMANENTLY  OPERATING  IN
 NEW  YORK STATE, INCLUDING MOBILE FACILITIES, WHERE A PET MAY BE BATHED,
 DRIED, BRUSHED, CLIPPED OR STYLED, AND (I) PET GROOMING  IS  THE  ESTAB-
 LISHMENT'S  PREDOMINANT  SOURCE  OF SALES, OR (II) PET GROOMING SERVICES
 ARE OFFERED WITHIN A RETAIL STORE.  A PET GROOMING  FACILITY  SHALL  NOT
 INCLUDE  ANY  SELF-SERVICE  PET  GROOMING  FACILITIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO BUSINESSES SUCH AS CAR WASH FACILITIES WHERE PET GROOMING  IS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05713-01-3
              

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