Senate Bill S865

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to eliminating certain surcharges for the licensing of service dogs

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee

  • 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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2023-S865 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §110, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S319
2021-2022: S3613

2023-S865 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows municipalities to eliminate the surcharge for the licensing of service dogs relating to animal population control efforts.

2023-S865 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S865 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    865
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation  to  elimi-
   nating certain surcharges for licensing certain service dogs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 110 of the agriculture and markets
 law, as added by section 5 of part T of chapter 59 of the laws of  2010,
 is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Municipalities  may exempt from [their] THE licensing fees IMPOSED
 BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION AND THE SURCHARGE IMPOSED BY SUBDIVI-
 SION THREE OF THIS SECTION any guide dog, hearing dog, service dog,  war
 dog,  working search dog, detection dog, police work dog or therapy dog.
 Each copy of any license for such dogs  shall  be  conspicuously  marked
 "Guide  Dog",  "Hearing  Dog", "Service Dog", "Working Search Dog", "War
 Dog", "Detection Dog", "Police Work Dog", or "Therapy Dog",  as  may  be
 appropriate, by the clerk or authorized dog control officer.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03660-01-3

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