Bill Text: NY A00912 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals; provides that violations shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A00912 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00912-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           912
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GLICK, O'DONNELL, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, GOTT-
          FRIED, DINOWITZ, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 11-1908 to read as follows:
     3  § 11-1908. Prohibits the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or  circus
     4               animals.
     5    1. No person shall take, as defined in subdivision thirteen of section
     6  11-0103  of this article, an animal that such person knows or has reason
     7  to know is presently or was formerly a  part  of  a  zoo,  petting  zoo,
     8  carnival, or circus.
     9    2.  No zoo, petting zoo, carnival, or circus or any person licensed or
    10  required to be licensed as an exhibitor under the Animal Welfare Act,  7
    11  USC section 2131 et seq., shall sell, offer for sale, distribute, barter
    12  or donate any animal wherein such animal may be intentionally taken.
    13    3.  No person who owns, operates, or manages a facility including, but
    14  not limited to a facility that harbors non-native big game  mammals,  or
    15  any  other  facility  that permits the taking of animals shall purchase,
    16  accept or receive any animal such person knows or has reason to know  is
    17  presently  or  was  formerly  a part of a zoo, petting zoo, carnival, or
    18  circus.
    19    4. Violations of this section shall be punishable by  a  fine  of  not
    20  less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.
    21    5.  Nothing in this section shall preempt a municipal corporation from
    22  enacting more restrictive  laws,  ordinances  or  regulations  governing
    23  animals in zoos, petting zoos, carnivals, or circuses.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05044-01-9