STATE OF NEW YORK
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2998
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. FUNKE, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic
Animal Welfare
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to exempt-
ing dog license fees for deployed active military member's dogs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 108 of the agriculture and markets law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 30 to read as follows:
3 30. "Deployed active military member's dog" means any dog whose owner
4 is an active member of the military that has received and presented
5 orders to report for military service which requires temporary housing
6 while the owner is filling their service commitments.
7 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 110 of the agriculture and markets law,
8 as added by section 5 of part T of chapter 59 of the laws of 2010, is
9 amended to read as follows:
10 2. Municipalities may exempt from their licensing fees any guide dog,
11 hearing dog, service dog, war dog, working search dog, detection dog,
12 police work dog, deployed active military member's dog or therapy dog.
13 Each copy of any license for such dogs shall be conspicuously marked
14 "Guide Dog", "Hearing Dog", "Service Dog", "Working Search Dog", "War
15 Dog", "Detection Dog", "Police Work Dog", "Deployed Active Military
16 Member's Dog", or "Therapy Dog", as may be appropriate, by the clerk or
17 authorized dog control officer.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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