Relates to local government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products, including but not limited to any article of clothing, fashion accessory, or home decoration that is made in whole or part of real fur.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A1614
SPONSOR: Rosenthal L TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local
government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products
PURPOSE:
This legislation will provide local governments the authority to
restrict the trade or sale of fur products.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one amends the environmental conservation law by adding a new
section 11-0114.
Section two establishes the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The purpose of this legislation is to clarify existing legislative
intent that nothing in the environmental conservation law, the general
business law, or the agriculture and markets law shall be construed to
prevent a local governing body from adopting and enforcing laws prohib-
iting or restricting trade in fur products.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-22: A.8442 - Referred to Environmental Conservation
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
60 days.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1614
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local
government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products
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 11-0114 to read as follows:
3 § 11-0114. Regulation of the real fur trade.
4 Nothing in this chapter, the general business law, the agriculture and
5 markets law or in regulations promulgated under the authority of such
6 chapters, shall be construed to prevent any municipal corporation or any
7 other local governing body from adopting and enforcing laws prohibiting
8 or restricting trade in or sale of real fur products, including but not
9 limited to any article of clothing, fashion accessory or home decoration
10 that is made in whole or part of real fur. For the purposes of this
11 section, "real fur" shall have the same meaning as in section three
12 hundred ninety-nine-aaa of the general business law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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