Bill Text: NY A03357 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to discrimination against owners of specific breeds of dogs.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-15 - enacting clause stricken [A03357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03357-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3357

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ZEBROWSKI, OTIS, GLICK, L. ROSENTHAL, COLTON,
          BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WEPRIN, BARRETT, SEAWRIGHT, WOERNER --  Multi-Spon-
          sored  by  -- M. of A. COOK, HEVESI, LUPARDO, McDONOUGH, SIMON -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law and the  real  property  law,  in
          relation to discrimination against owners of specific breeds of dog

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  223-c to read as follows:
     3    §  223-c.  Discrimination  against  persons  who  own certain dogs. No
     4  person shall be denied occupancy in a dwelling  in  any  project  or  be
     5  subjected  to  eviction  from any such dwelling on the grounds that such
     6  person owns a dog of a specific breed, size,  or  weight  and  such  dog
     7  resides  with such person. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
     8  prohibit  any  authority  from  prescribing  and  enforcing   reasonable
     9  restrictions  or  requirements  on  the ownership of dogs, regardless of
    10  their breed, size, or weight, or on the ownership of dangerous  dogs  as
    11  prescribed  in  section  one hundred twenty-three of the agriculture and
    12  markets law.
    13    § 2. Article 7 of the real property law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    14  section 238-b to read as follows:
    15    §  238-b.  Discrimination  in  leases with respect to certain dogs. No
    16  person, firm or corporation owning or having  in  charge  any  apartment
    17  house,  tenement  house  or  other building or mobile home park used for
    18  dwelling purposes shall restrict a tenant's ability to own a  dog  of  a
    19  specific  breed,  size  or  weight.    Nothing  in this section shall be
    20  construed to prohibit such persons, firms or corporations from prescrib-
    21  ing and enforcing reasonable restrictions or requirements on the  owner-
    22  ship  of  dogs,  regardless  of  their  breed, size or weight, or on the
    23  ownership of dangerous dogs as prescribed in section one  hundred  twen-
    24  ty-three of the agriculture and markets law.
    25    § 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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