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A06187 Summary:

BILL NO	A06187
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Brown K
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §385, Ag & Mkts L
Requires residential property owners to register backyard chicken coops for the purposes of containing disease outbreaks affecting such chicken coops.

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A06187 Actions:

BILL NO	A06187
04/03/2023	referred to agriculture
01/03/2024	referred to agriculture

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A06187 Committee Votes:

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A06187 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6187
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to regis-
          tration of backyard chicken coops
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 385 to read as follows:
     3    § 385. Backyard chicken coop registration. 1. Any person  who  owns  a
     4  chicken  coop  on their residential property shall register such chicken
     5  coop with the municipality in which their property is located on a  form
     6  to  be  prescribed  by  the  commissioner.  Such  registration  shall be
     7  conducted within thirty days of establishing such chicken coop.
     8    2. Municipalities shall regularly send an updated list of  all  regis-
     9  tered  residential  chicken  coops  to the New York farm bureau. The New
    10  York farm bureau shall create and maintain an  online  database  of  all
    11  registered  residential chicken coops in the state and shall contact all
    12  residential property owners listed in such database upon the  documented
    13  outbreak of disease affecting residential chicken coops.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09941-01-3

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