Bill Text: NY A01205 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 1205 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to administrative hearings and processes as they apply to pet dealers.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-05 - substituted by s3955a [A01205 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01205-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1205--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, MARKEY, TITONE, KAVANAGH, JAFFEE, OTIS --
         Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. GLICK, MILLER, WEISENBERG -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- committee  discharged,
         bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
         committee
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to adminis-
         trative hearings and processes for pet dealers
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.    Subdivision  4  of  section  404 of the agriculture and
    2  markets law, as added by chapter 259 of the laws of 2000, is amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    4.   Before any license shall be suspended or revoked, the commission-
    5  er, or any hearing officer he or she may designate, shall hold  a  hear-
    6  ing, upon due notice to the licensee, in accordance with any regulations
    7  promulgated  by the department and in accordance with articles three and
    8  four of the state administrative procedure act.   WHERE A  LICENSEE  HAS
    9  THREE  CONSECUTIVE  INSPECTIONS  IN  WHICH  THE  LICENSEE  HAS FAILED TO
   10  CORRECT DEFICIENCIES OF A CRITICAL NATURE, PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, THE
   11  COMMISSIONER SHALL HOLD A HEARING TO CONSIDER THE SUSPENSION OR  REVOCA-
   12  TION  OF THE PET DEALER LICENSE.  NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT
   13  THE COMMISSIONER FROM TAKING ADDITIONAL ACTIONS AS  OTHERWISE  PERMITTED
   14  BY THIS SECTION REGARDING SUCH LICENSES PRIOR TO THE OCCURRENCE OF THREE
   15  CONSECUTIVE  INSPECTIONS  IN  WHICH  THE  LICENSEE HAS FAILED TO CORRECT
   16  DEFICIENCIES OF A CRITICAL NATURE.
   17    S 2.  This act shall take effect on  the  one  hundred  twentieth  day
   18  after 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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