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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6071
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 11, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, ROZIC, BENEDETTO,
          MILLER,  BUCHWALD  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. HEVESI -- (at
          request of the Governor) -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Environmental Conservation
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          musical  instruments containing ivory or rhinoceros horn; and to amend
          chapter 326 of the laws of 2014 amending the  environmental  conserva-
          tion  law relating to prohibiting the purchase and sale of ivory arti-
          cles and rhinoceros horns and increasing the penalties for the illegal
          sale of such articles, in relation  to  amending  the  effective  date
          thereof and permitting the sale of mammoth items through June 30, 2015
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section  11-0535-a  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law, as added by chapter 326 of the laws of
     3  2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    d. the ivory article or rhinoceros horn is  [part]  less  than  twenty
     5  percent  by  volume  of a musical instrument, including, without limita-
     6  tion, string and wind instruments and pianos, and the  owner  or  seller
     7  provides  historical documentation as the department may require, demon-
     8  strating provenance and showing the item was manufactured no later  than
     9  nineteen hundred seventy-five if the instrument contains elephant ivory,
    10  or June thirtieth, two thousand fourteen if the instrument contains only
    11  mammoth ivory.
    12    §  2.  Section 7 of chapter 326 of the laws of 2014 amending the envi-
    13  ronmental conservation law relating to prohibiting the purchase and sale
    14  of ivory articles and rhinoceros horns and increasing penalties for  the
    15  illegal sale of such articles, is amended to read as follows:
    16    §  7.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, any
    17  person who has been issued a license or  permit  allowing  the  sale  of
    18  elephant  ivory articles or rhinoceros horns prior to the effective date
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of this act may sell such articles listed  on  such  license  or  permit
     2  until such license or permit has expired; and provided further, that any
     3  person  who  possesses mammoth ivory articles on the date this act takes
     4  effect may sell, offer for sale, trade, barter, or distribute such arti-
     5  cles  through June 30, 2015, if the articles are accompanied by documen-
     6  tation sufficient to show that such articles are mammoth ivory  obtained
     7  prior to the effective date of this act.
     8    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately, and shall be deemed to
     9  have been in full force and effect on the same  date  and  in  the  same
    10  manner as chapter 326 of the laws of 2014, took effect.