Assembly Bill A2616

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting licensing to only pet dealers which sell animals obtained from shelters and rescue organizations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A2616 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2850
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §403, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A2982, S8221
2021-2022: A2024

2019-A2616 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits licensing to only pet dealers which sell animals obtained from shelters and rescue organizations.

2019-A2616 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2616
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 24, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNE,
   D'URSO, GLICK, LIFTON, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to limiting
   licensing  to  only pet dealers which sell animals obtained from shel-
   ters and rescue organizations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 403 of the agriculture and markets law is amended
 by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
   12. NO PET DEALER  SHALL  DISPLAY,  SELL,  DELIVER,  OFFER  FOR  SALE,
 BARTER,  AUCTION,  GIVE AWAY, BROKER OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER OR DISPOSE OF
 AN ANIMAL UNLESS IT IS OBTAINED FROM:
   (A) AN ANIMAL SHELTER;
   (B) A PRIVATE, NONPROFIT HUMANE SOCIETY  OR  NONPROFIT  ANIMAL  RESCUE
 ORGANIZATION; OR
   (C)  AN  ANIMAL  SHELTER, NONPROFIT HUMANE SOCIETY OR NONPROFIT ANIMAL
 RESCUE ORGANIZATION THAT OPERATES OUT OF OR IN  CONNECTION  WITH  A  PET
 DEALER.
   NOTHING  SHALL PREVENT A PET DEALER FROM PROVIDING SPACE AND APPROPRI-
 ATE CARE FOR ANIMALS OWNED BY AN ANIMAL SHELTER, NONPROFIT HUMANE SOCIE-
 TY OR NONPROFIT ANIMAL RESCUE AGENCY AND MAINTAINED BY A PET DEALER  FOR
 THE PURPOSE OF ADOPTING THOSE ANIMALS TO THE PUBLIC.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02170-01-9

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