Directs the commissioner of health to promulgate necessary rules and regulations permitting municipalities to allow pygmy pigs as pets; defines "pygmy pigs".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1504
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to pygmy pigs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
3 31. The commissioner shall promulgate any necessary rules and regu-
4 lations permitting municipalities to allow pygmy pigs as pets. For the
5 purposes of this subdivision, the term "pygmy pig" means a pig or hog
6 classified as Sus scrofa jubatus Muller, or Sus scrofa (cristatus)
7 vittatus, and commonly referred to as a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig,
8 pygmy pig or mini-pig, which stands no higher than twenty-two inches at
9 the shoulder and weighs no more than two hundred pounds.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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