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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3338
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 24, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  authorizing  the
          seizure  and  confinement of animals in connection with the prevention
          of rabies
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 2140 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 180 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     3    7. "Confinement and observation" refers to the conditions under  which
     4  apparently  healthy dogs, cats, domesticated ferrets, and domestic live-
     5  stock, which are not exhibiting symptoms of rabies, must  be  maintained
     6  to  determine  rabies status if such an animal has potentially exposed a
     7  person to rabies, and the owner wishes to avoid euthanizing and  testing
     8  the  animal.  [The] If the county health authority does not approve home
     9  confinement, the ten day confinement and observation  period  must  take
    10  place,  at owner's expense, at an appropriate facility such as an animal

    11  shelter, veterinarian's office,  kennel  or  farm  [for  an  animal  not
    12  actively immunized against rabies at the time of the bite. County health
    13  departments  may  allow  home  confinements  and observation for animals
    14  actively immunized. Confinement and observation includes]. The  confine-
    15  ment  must include (i) provisions to prevent escape of the animal during
    16  the confinement period and (ii) requirements that the owner  notify  the
    17  public health authority immediately if the animal becomes ill at anytime
    18  during confinement, and (iii) verification by the county health authori-
    19  ty  or their designee [both during and] at the end of the ten day period
    20  that the animal [cannot or has not escaped and has remained] is healthy.

    21    § 2.  This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02694-01-1