Bill Text: NY A02381 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a disclosure form for the surrender of a dog to a shelter, pound or dog protective association detailing the reasons for surrender and any aggressive tendencies of such dog.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A02381 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02381-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2381

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture  and  markets  law,  in  relation  to  a
          disclosure form for the surrender of a dog

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 117 of the agriculture and markets law  is  amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12.  (a)  Every pound, shelter, incorporated humane society or similar
     4  incorporated dog protective association, shall develop a form to be used
     5  upon the surrender of a dog by its owner to such entity. Such form shall
     6  request the following information from such owner:
     7    (i) the reason or reasons for surrendering the dog;
     8    (ii) whether the dog has been declared to be a dangerous dog;  whether
     9  such dog has ever exhibited aggressive tendencies;
    10    (iii) whether the dog has ever bitten any person; and
    11    (iv)  any  other  information  with  regard to the dog which the owner
    12  feels may be relevant to the future placement of the dog.
    13    (b) The pound, shelter, incorporated humane society or similar  incor-
    14  porated dog protective association which accepts dogs surrendered by its
    15  owner  to be sheltered and adopted out shall maintain the form and shall
    16  disclose it to any prospective adoptive owner or any  other  person  who
    17  may  shelter  or harbor the dog for any period of time after its surren-
    18  der.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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