Bill Text: NY S00177 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the disposition of cats; allows shelters to put cats, whose owners cannot be identified by any collar, tags or microchip, up for adoption after three days and after an examination by a veterinarian.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - SIGNED CHAP.421 [S00177 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00177-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         177--C
            Cal. No. 489
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Agriculture -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Agriculture in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec.
          8 -- reported favorably from said  committee,  ordered  to  first  and
          second  report,  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          disposition of cats
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 374 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law, as amended by chapter 449 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    2.  In  the absence of such findings or certification, a duly incorpo-
     5  rated humane society, a duly incorporated society for the prevention  of
     6  cruelty  to  animals,  or  any  pound maintained by or under contract or
     7  agreement with any county, city, town or village  may  after  five  days
     8  make  available  for  adoption  or have humanely destroyed in accordance
     9  with the provisions of this section and  subject  to  subdivisions  six,
    10  eight and nine of section one hundred [eighteen] seventeen of this chap-
    11  ter,  any  animal  of  which  possession is taken as provided for in the
    12  preceding section, unless the same is earlier  redeemed  by  its  owner.
    13  Notwithstanding  the redemption periods set forth above in this subdivi-
    14  sion, any municipality may establish the duration  of  such  periods  by
    15  local law or ordinance for any cat whose owner cannot be identified by a
    16  collar,  tag, microchip, tattoo or other identifying mark, provided that
    17  no such period shall be less than three days, and provided further  that
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  such  cat  be  made  available  solely  for the purposes of adoption and
     2  released to an adoptive owner following an  examination  by  a  duly-li-
     3  censed veterinarian, the details of which shall be provided to the adop-
     4  tive owner.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
     7  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
     8  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
     9  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.