Bill Text: NY S00319 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows municipalities to eliminate the surcharge for the licensing of service dogs relating to animal population control efforts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S00319 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00319-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 319 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to elimi- nating certain surcharges for licensing certain service dogs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 110 of the agriculture and markets 2 law, as added by section 5 of part T of chapter 59 of the laws of 2010, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 2. Municipalities may exempt from [their] the licensing fees imposed 5 by subdivision one of this section and the surcharge imposed by subdivi- 6 sion three of this section any guide dog, hearing dog, service dog, war 7 dog, working search dog, detection dog, police work dog or therapy dog. 8 Each copy of any license for such dogs shall be conspicuously marked 9 "Guide Dog", "Hearing Dog", "Service Dog", "Working Search Dog", "War 10 Dog", "Detection Dog", "Police Work Dog", or "Therapy Dog", as may be 11 appropriate, by the clerk or authorized dog control officer. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 13 ing the date on which it shall become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01399-01-9
