Bill Text: NY A06107 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring the commissioner to establish licensing and educational standards for individuals providing canine training for non-service and non-police dogs.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to agriculture [A06107 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06107-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6107

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, M. MILLER -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Agriculture

        AN  ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
          ing the commissioner of agriculture and markets to establish licensing
          and educational standards for individuals  providing  canine  training
          for non-service and non-police dogs

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

     1    Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a  new
     2  section 113-a to read as follows:
     3    §  113-a.  Obedience  training.  1.  The commissioner shall by rule or
     4  regulation establish licensing and educational standards for individuals
     5  providing basic obedience courses to non-service and non-police dogs and
     6  their owners.
     7    2. This section shall not apply to any dog that falls  under  subdivi-
     8  sion  nine, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-five, twen-
     9  ty-six or twenty-seven of section one hundred eight of this article.
    10    3. No person who is convicted of a violation of section three  hundred
    11  fifty-one,  three  hundred  fifty-three,  three hundred fifty-three-a or
    12  three hundred fifty-five of article twenty-six of this  chapter  may  be
    13  licensed to provide obedience training services under this section.
    14    4.  Licensees under this section are to maintain practices and facili-
    15  ties in accordance with animal control provisions under articles  seven,
    16  twenty-five-b  and  twenty-six  of  this  chapter and are subject to the
    17  enforcement of such provisions, by any constable, police officer,  peace
    18  officer,  dog control officer, animal control officer, or any officer or
    19  agent of any duly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty  to
    20  animals as authorized under this chapter.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01197-01-1