Amd S17-812, NYC Ad Cd; amd S404-p, V & T L; amd S97-xx, St Fin L
 
Allocates funding for the New York city animal population control fund for the animal population control program; monies that emanate from any resident or source in NYC from certain violations and fees shall be allocated to the NYC animal population control fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4197
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the
vehicle and traffic law and the state finance law, in relation to
funding the animal population control fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 17-812 of the administrative code of the city of
2 New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. An amount not to exceed fifteen percent of the balance of the fund
4 at the beginning of each fiscal year shall be available for the purposes
5 of implementation and promotion of the animal population control program
6 established pursuant to section 17-811 of this chapter. Such promotion
7 shall include educating the public about the benefits associated with
8 spaying and neutering and where to obtain low-cost spaying and neutering
9 services.
10 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as
11 amended by chapter 577 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 2. A distinctive Animal Population Control Fund plate issued pursuant
14 to this section shall be issued in the same manner as other number
15 plates upon the payment of the regular registration fee prescribed by
16 section four hundred one of this article provided, however, that an
17 additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be charged
18 for such plate. All monies received as annual service charges under this
19 section shall be deposited to the credit of the animal population
20 control fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-xx of the
21 state finance law, and shall be used for animal population control
22 programs undertaken pursuant to section one hundred seventeen-a of the
23 agriculture and markets law, except that all monies received as annual
24 service charges under this section from New York city residents shall be
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 deposited to the credit of the animal population control fund created
2 pursuant to section 17-812 of the administrative code of the city of New
3 York and shall be used for the animal population control program under-
4 taken pursuant to section 17-811 of the administrative code of the city
5 of New York.
6 § 3. Section 97-xx of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
7 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
8 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, all monies deposit-
9 ed, credited to or transferred from any fund or source to the animal
10 population control fund established pursuant to this section, including
11 but not limited to, sections three hundred seventy-seven-a, three
12 hundred seventy-nine, ninety-six-e and ninety-six-h of the agriculture
13 and markets law, section three hundred ninety-nine-aa of the general
14 business law, and section four hundred four-p of the vehicle and traffic
15 law, that emanate from any resident or source in New York city shall be
16 forwarded by the state comptroller to the animal population control fund
17 established pursuant to section 17-812 of the administrative code of the
18 city of New York.
19 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.