Bill Text: NY A06842 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6842 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Allows persons 60 years or older to keep and care for common household pets in municipal housing; prevents eviction of such persons based on the ownership of pets; provides that any pet who poses a nuisance to the community may be removed; does not remove any pet owner from liability for the reasonable costs directly attributable to any damage caused by the pet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-01 - reported referred to codes [A06842 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06842-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6842--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 6, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Housing  --  recommitted to the Committee on Housing in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public housing law, in relation to the keeping of
          certain household pets by persons sixty years of age or older
          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  have  certain  household
     4  pets.  1.  No  person who is sixty years of age or older shall be denied
     5  occupancy in a dwelling in  any  housing  project  or  be  subjected  to
     6  eviction  from any such dwelling on the sole ground that such person has
     7  a common household pet which will or does reside with such person there-
     8  in.
     9    2. All municipal housing authorities shall promulgate regulations  for
    10  the  keeping  of  common household pets by persons sixty years of age or
    11  older who reside in a dwelling in any housing project. Such  regulations
    12  may  include  consideration, after consultation with the tenants of such
    13  housing project, of other reasonable factors to govern  the  keeping  of
    14  common  household  pets  such as density of tenants, pet size, potential
    15  financial obligations of tenants, and standards of pet care. Such  regu-
    16  lations  may include, but not be limited to, requiring all pet owners to
    17  comply with:
    18    (a) inoculations and licensing mandated by state and  local  laws,  if
    19  applicable;
    20    (b) sanitary standards governing the disposal of pet waste;
    21    (c) pet restraint in common areas;
    22    (d)  alternate caretakers in the case of sickness or incapacity of the
    23  pet owner;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05764-02-6