Bill Text: NY S00938 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes a five percent surcharge on the sale of animals by pet dealers and the animal shelter and wildlife rehabilitator account to be administered by an animal protection organization to be chosen by the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-13 - PRINT NUMBER 938A [S00938 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00938-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 938--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 estab- lishing a five percent surcharge on the sale of animals by pet deal- ers; and to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the "New York animal shelter and wildlife rehabilitator account" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new 2 section 380 to read as follows: 3 § 380. Animal sale surcharge. 1. Whenever any pet dealer sells any 4 animal, there shall be levied upon such pet dealer a mandatory surcharge 5 in the amount of five percent of the total of the price of the animal 6 and any ancillary products sold on the date such animal was purchased. 7 Such mandatory surcharge shall be paid to the state comptroller who 8 shall deposit such money in the state treasury to the credit of the New 9 York animal shelter and wildlife rehabilitator account established 10 pursuant to section ninety-nine-y of the state finance law. 11 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "pet dealer" shall mean 12 any person who engages in the sale or offering for sale of more than 13 nine animals per year for profit to the public. Such definition shall 14 include breeders who sell or offer to sell animals; provided that a 15 breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to the consumer fewer than 16 twenty-five animals per year that are born and raised on the breeder's 17 residential premises shall not be considered a pet dealer as a result of 18 selling or offering to sell such animals. Such definition shall further 19 not include duly incorporated humane societies dedicated to the care of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00178-02-6
