Prohibits clauses in residential leases requiring the declawing of animals; provides that any person, firm or corporation who violates such provisions is guilty of a violation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4516
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, BUCHWALD -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOTTFRIED, PERRY -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to prohibiting claus-
es in leases requiring the declawing of animals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section
2 235-h to read as follows:
3 § 235-h. Lease provisions related to declawing animals; prohibited. 1.
4 Any person, firm or corporation owning or having in charge any apartment
5 house, tenement house or other building or mobile home park used for
6 dwelling purposes who shall, in any lease of any or part of any such
7 building or mobile home park, have a clause therein requiring as a
8 restriction to occupancy the declawing of any animal, shall be guilty of
9 a violation.
10 2. For purposes of this section:
11 (a) "declawing" means performing, procuring, or arranging for any
12 non-therapeutic surgical procedure, such as onychectomy, tendonectomy,
13 or phalangectomy, to remove or to prevent the normal function of an
14 animal's claw or claws; and
15 (b) "non-therapeutic" means a surgical procedure that is performed
16 without there being a medical necessity to address the medical condition
17 of an animal, such as an existing or recurring illness, infection,
18 disease, injury, or abnormal condition that compromises the animal's
19 health.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law and shall apply to all leases entered into on or after
22 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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