STATE OF NEW YORK
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6822--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 25, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
certain contracts for the purchase or financing of a dog or cat from
including provisions allowing repossession of the animal
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 753-e of the general business law, as added by
2 chapter 272 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 753-e. Prohibited contracts. No contract for the purchase of a dog
4 or a cat or the financing of such purchase shall include any provisions
5 which authorize the use of a dog or a cat as security where such dog or
6 cat may be repossessed by the seller or lender contingent on the
7 purchaser making payments under such contract. Provided, however, noth-
8 ing in this section shall prohibit the purchase of a dog or cat through
9 an unsecured personal loan, nor be construed to limit the enforcement of
10 other provisions of this article, article [twenty-six-a] twenty-six-A of
11 the agriculture and markets law or other rights or remedies which are
12 otherwise available to all parties under any other law. The provisions
13 of this section shall also apply to the sale of a dog or cat through an
14 online website.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04457-03-5
