Bill Text: NY A00651 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allocates funding for the New York city animal population control fund for the animal population control program; monies that emanate from any resident or source in NYC from certain violations and fees shall be allocated to the NYC animal population control fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to ways and means [A00651 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00651-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          651
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Ways and Means
       AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
         vehicle  and  traffic  law  and  the state finance law, in relation to
         funding the animal population control fund
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  17-812 of the administrative code of the city of
    2  New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4. AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FIFTEEN PERCENT OF THE BALANCE OF THE  FUND
    4  AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH FISCAL YEAR SHALL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSES
    5  OF IMPLEMENTATION AND PROMOTION OF THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM
    6  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO SECTION 17-811 OF THIS CHAPTER. SUCH PROMOTION
    7  SHALL INCLUDE EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE  BENEFITS  ASSOCIATED  WITH
    8  SPAYING AND NEUTERING AND WHERE TO OBTAIN LOW-COST SPAYING AND NEUTERING
    9  SERVICES.
   10    S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as
   11  amended  by  chapter  577  of  the  laws  of 2007, is amended to read as
   12  follows:
   13    2. A distinctive Animal Population Control Fund plate issued  pursuant
   14  to  this  section  shall  be  issued  in the same manner as other number
   15  plates upon the payment of the regular registration  fee  prescribed  by
   16  section  four  hundred  one  of  this article provided, however, that an
   17  additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be charged
   18  for such plate. All monies received as annual service charges under this
   19  section shall be deposited  to  the  credit  of  the  animal  population
   20  control  fund  established  pursuant  to  section ninety-seven-xx of the
   21  state finance law, and shall  be  used  for  animal  population  control
   22  programs  undertaken  pursuant to section one hundred seventeen-a of the
   23  agriculture and markets law, EXCEPT THAT ALL MONIES RECEIVED  AS  ANNUAL
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04128-01-5
       A. 651                              2
    1  SERVICE CHARGES UNDER THIS SECTION FROM NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS SHALL BE
    2  DEPOSITED  TO  THE  CREDIT OF THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL FUND CREATED
    3  PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-812 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW
    4  YORK  AND SHALL BE USED FOR THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM UNDER-
    5  TAKEN PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-811 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE  CITY
    6  OF NEW YORK.
    7    S 3. Section 97-xx of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
    8  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    9    5. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, ALL MONIES DEPOSIT-
   10  ED,  CREDITED  TO  OR  TRANSFERRED FROM ANY FUND OR SOURCE TO THE ANIMAL
   11  POPULATION CONTROL FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION,  INCLUDING
   12  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  SECTIONS  THREE  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-SEVEN-A, THREE
   13  HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE, NINETY-SIX-E AND NINETY-SIX-H OF  THE  AGRICULTURE
   14  AND  MARKETS  LAW,  SECTION  THREE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-AA OF THE GENERAL
   15  BUSINESS LAW, AND SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-P OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC
   16  LAW, THAT EMANATE FROM ANY RESIDENT OR SOURCE IN NEW YORK CITY SHALL  BE
   17  FORWARDED BY THE STATE COMPTROLLER TO THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL FUND
   18  ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-812 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE
   19  CITY OF NEW YORK.
   20    S  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   21  have become a law.