Bill Text: NY A03179 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring individuals and businesses who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial services for profit to use a facility that is in compliance with New York state laws.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-06 - print number 3179b [A03179 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3179
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 24, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Consumer Affairs and Protection
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring indi-
         viduals  and  businesses  who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial
         services for profit use a facility that is in compliance with New York
         state laws
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  750-b  of  the general business law, as added by
    2  chapter 526 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 750-b. License required. [On and after July  thirty-first,  nineteen
    4  hundred  ninety-three,  no person shall engage for a fee in the business
    5  of operating a pet cemetery  or  pet  crematorium  or  hold  himself  or
    6  herself out as being able so to do unless he or she is licensed therefor
    7  pursuant  to  this article] THE STATE SHALL REQUIRE THAT ANY INDIVIDUAL,
    8  BUSINESS, OR ENTITY OFFERING  OR  SOLICITING  PET  CREMATION  OR  BURIAL
    9  SERVICES  FOR PROFIT, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, USE A LICENSED CREMATORY
   10  OR CEMETERY LOCATED IN, LICENSED BY, AND SUBJECT TO  REGULATION  BY  THE
   11  STATE  OF  NEW YORK.   Nothing [herein] IN THIS SECTION shall prohibit a
   12  person licensed in accordance with the provisions of this  article  from
   13  employing  individuals  to  assist in the operation of a pet cemetery or
   14  pet crematorium.
   15    S 2. 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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