STATE OF NEW YORK
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1649
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, L. ROSENTHAL, DiPIETRO, WEPRIN, GLICK --
read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law and the general business
law, in relation to the definition of pet dealer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 400 of the agri-
2 culture and markets law, as amended by chapter 553 of the laws of 2022,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to the consumer
5 fewer than [twenty-five] fifteen animals per year that are born and
6 raised on the breeder's residential premises;
7 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 752 of the general
8 business law, as amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 2017, is amended
9 to read as follows:
10 (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to the consumer
11 fewer than [twenty-five] fifteen animals per year that are born and
12 raised on the breeders residential premises.
13 § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 752 of the general
14 business law, as amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 2017, is
15 amended to read as follows:
16 (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to the consumer
17 fewer than [twenty-five] fifteen animals per year that are born and
18 raised on the breeders residential premises.
19 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
20 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to
21 paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 752 of the general business
22 law made by section three of this act shall take effect on the same date
23 and in the same manner as chapter 683 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04262-01-3
