Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads by such municipal employees.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6573--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 17, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture -- reported
favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Local
Government -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
recovery of a deceased dog or cat on public roads
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 377-b to read as follows:
3 § 377-b. Recovery of a deceased dog or cat on public roads. Any munic-
4 ipal employee that recovers the body of a dog or cat killed on a public
5 road in the normal and ordinary course of the public employment or
6 duties of such employee shall make a reasonable effort to detect indicia
7 of ownership, such as tags, license numbers, or other such identifiers
8 on or about the animal and shall make a reasonable effort to notify the
9 owner or an animal management service concerning the animal's death.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 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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