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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          10153
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 17, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sweeney) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          distribution of certain ivory articles and rhinoceros horns to a muse-
          um authorized by special charter from the legislature of the state
 

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section  11-0535-a  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law,  as  added by a chapter of the laws of
     3  2014, amending the environmental conservation law relating to  prohibit-
     4  ing  the  purchase  and  sale of ivory articles and rhinoceros horns and
     5  increaseing the penalties for the illegal  sale  of  such  articles,  as
     6  proposed  in  legislative bills numbers S. 7890 and A. 10143, is amended
     7  to read as follows:
     8    b. the distribution or change of possession of the  ivory  article  or
     9  rhinoceros  horn is for bona fide educational or scientific purposes, or
    10  to a museum chartered by the board of regents pursuant to the  education
    11  law  or to a museum authorized by a special charter from the legislature

    12  of this state; or
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    14  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2014, amending the environmental
    15  conservation law relating to prohibiting the purchase and sale of  ivory
    16  articles and rhinoceros horns and increasing the penalties for the ille-
    17  gal  sale  of such articles, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
    18  7890 and A. 10143, takes effect.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15642-01-4