Limits the animal dealers that are exempt under the provisions of article 7 of the agriculture and markets law relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs; applies provisions to dealers licensed as a class A dealer under the Federal Animal Welfare Act that sells dogs exclusively to USDA registered research facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1939
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to limiting
the animal dealers exempt under the provisions of article 7 of such
law relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 107 of the agriculture and markets
2 law, as amended by section 1 of part T of chapter 59 of the laws of
3 2010, is amended to read as follows:
4 4. This article shall not apply to any dog confined to the premises of
5 any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of breeding or
6 raising dogs for profit and licensed as a class A dealer under the
7 Federal [Laboratory] Animal Welfare Act, provided such dealer sells dogs
8 exclusively to USDA registered research facilities, or research facili-
9 ties with a Public Health Services approved Animal Welfare Assurance
10 from the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare at the National Institute
11 of Health and to agencies of the federal government that are exempt from
12 the Animal Welfare Act and foreign entities lawfully engaged in
13 research.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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