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                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 1, 2013
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
  vehicle  and  traffic  law  and  the state finance law, in relation to
  funding the animal population control fund

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  17-812 of the administrative code of the city of
New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
  4. AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FIFTEEN PERCENT OF THE BALANCE OF THE  FUND
AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH FISCAL YEAR SHALL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSES
OF IMPLEMENTATION AND PROMOTION OF THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM
ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO SECTION 17-811 OF THIS CHAPTER. SUCH PROMOTION
SHALL INCLUDE EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE  BENEFITS  ASSOCIATED  WITH
SPAYING AND NEUTERING AND WHERE TO OBTAIN LOW-COST SPAYING AND NEUTERING
SERVICES.
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as
amended  by  chapter  577  of  the  laws  of 2007, is amended to read as
follows:
  2. A distinctive Animal Population Control Fund plate issued  pursuant
to  this  section  shall  be  issued  in the same manner as other number
plates upon the payment of the regular registration  fee  prescribed  by
section  four  hundred  one  of  this article provided, however, that an
additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be charged
for such plate. All monies received as annual service charges under this
section shall be deposited  to  the  credit  of  the  animal  population
control  fund  established  pursuant  to  section ninety-seven-xx of the
state finance law, and shall  be  used  for  animal  population  control
programs  undertaken  pursuant to section one hundred seventeen-a of the
agriculture and markets law, EXCEPT THAT ALL MONIES RECEIVED  AS  ANNUAL
SERVICE CHARGES UNDER THIS SECTION FROM NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS SHALL BE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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DEPOSITED  TO  THE  CREDIT OF THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL FUND CREATED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-812 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW
YORK AND SHALL BE USED FOR THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM  UNDER-
TAKEN  PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-811 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY
OF NEW YORK.
  S 3. Section 97-xx of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 5 to read as follows:
  5. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, ALL MONIES DEPOSIT-
ED, CREDITED TO OR TRANSFERRED FROM ANY FUND OR  SOURCE  TO  THE  ANIMAL
POPULATION  CONTROL FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, INCLUDING
BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO,  SECTIONS  THREE  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-SEVEN-A,  THREE
HUNDRED  SEVENTY-NINE,  NINETY-SIX-E AND NINETY-SIX-H OF THE AGRICULTURE
AND MARKETS LAW, SECTION THREE HUNDRED  NINETY-NINE-AA  OF  THE  GENERAL
BUSINESS LAW, AND SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-P OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC
LAW,  THAT EMANATE FROM ANY RESIDENT OR SOURCE IN NEW YORK CITY SHALL BE
FORWARDED BY THE STATE COMPTROLLER TO THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL FUND
ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-812 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.