Bill Text: NY S01148 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S01148 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01148-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1148

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 7, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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  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