Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, sale and use of commercial feed for poultry containing roxarsone or any substance containing arsenic; violation of such provisions shall constitute a class A misdemeanor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5784
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
manufacture, distribution, sale and use of commercial feed for poultry
containing roxarsone or any other substance that contains arsenic
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 131-a to read as follows:
3 § 131-a. Commercial feed for poultry; roxarsone prohibited. 1. No
4 person in this state shall manufacture, distribute, sell or use any
5 commercial feed for poultry, as defined in subdivision sixteen of
6 section ninety-b of this chapter, which contains roxarsone or any other
7 substance that contains arsenic.
8 2. Any person that violates subdivision one of this section shall be
9 guilty of a class A misdemeanor as defined in the penal law.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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