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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         7415--C
            Cal. No. 1322
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 16, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. MARCELLINO, HAMILTON, KRUEGER, MARCHIONE, MURPHY --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the  Committee  on  Judiciary  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said  commit-
          tee,  ordered  to  first report, amended on first report, ordered to a
          second report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the  order
          of second report
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to certain lease
          agreements concerning dogs and cats
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  753-e to read as follows:
     3    §  753-e. Prohibited contracts.  No contract for the purchase of a dog
     4  or a cat or the financing of such purchase shall include any  provisions
     5  which  authorize the use of a dog or a cat as security where such dog or
     6  cat may be repossessed  by  the  seller  or  lender  contingent  on  the
     7  purchaser  making payments under such contract. Provided, however, noth-
     8  ing in this section shall prohibit the purchase of a dog or cat  through
     9  an unsecured personal loan, nor be construed to limit the enforcement of
    10  other  provisions  of this article, article twenty-six-a of the agricul-
    11  ture and markets law or other rights or  remedies  which  are  otherwise
    12  available to all parties under any other law.
    13    §  2.  Subdivision  1-a of section 755 of the general business law, as
    14  added by chapter 259 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    15    1-a. Any person who violates any provision of  section  seven  hundred
    16  fifty-three-a,  seven  hundred  fifty-three-b, [or] seven hundred fifty-
    17  three-c, or seven hundred fifty-three-e of  this  article  may  also  be
    18  subject  to denial, suspension, revocation of, or refusal to renew a pet
    19  dealer license, in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  sections  four
    20  hundred three and four hundred four of the agriculture and markets law.
    21    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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