Bill Text: NY S03830 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the definitions of pet dealers; decreases the number of animals a person can distribute to fit under the exemption.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO DOMESTIC ANIMAL WELFARE [S03830 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03830-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3830 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law and the general business law, in relation to the definition of pet dealer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 400 of the agriculture and markets 2 law, as amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 4. "Pet Dealer" means any person who engages in the sale or offering 5 for sale of more than nine animals per year for profit to the public. 6 Such definition shall include breeders who sell or offer to sell 7 animals; provided that it shall not include the following: 8 (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to the consumer 9 fewer than [twenty-five] fifteen animals per year that are born and 10 raised on the breeder's residential premises; 11 (b) Any municipal pound or shelter dedicated to the care of unwanted 12 animals which makes such animals available for adoption whether or not a 13 fee for such adoption is charged, established and maintained pursuant to 14 subdivision one of section one hundred fourteen of this chapter; and 15 (c) Any duly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to 16 animals, duly incorporated humane society, duly incorporated animal 17 protective association or other duly incorporated animal adoption or 18 animal rescue organization dedicated to the care of unwanted animals 19 which makes such animals available for adoption whether or not a fee for 20 such adoption is charged that is exempt from taxes pursuant to paragraph 21 (3) of subsection (c) of section 501 of the federal Internal Revenue 22 Code, 26 U.S.C. 501, or any subsequent corresponding sections of the 23 federal Internal Revenue Code, as from time to time amended, that is 24 registered with the department pursuant to section four hundred eight of 25 this article. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00606-01-9S. 3830 2 1 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 752 of the general business law, as 2 amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. For purposes of section seven hundred fifty-three of this article, 5 a "pet dealer" shall mean any person who, in the ordinary course of 6 business, engages in the sale or offering for sale of more than nine 7 animals per year for profit to the public. Such definition shall include 8 breeders of animals who sell or offer for sale animals directly to a 9 consumer but it shall not include any municipal pound or shelter estab- 10 lished and maintained pursuant to subdivision one of section one hundred 11 fourteen of the agriculture and markets law, or any duly incorporated 12 society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, duly incorporated 13 humane society, duly incorporated animal protective association or other 14 duly incorporated animal adoption or animal rescue organization that is 15 tax exempt pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of section 501 of 16 the federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 501, or any subsequent 17 corresponding sections of the federal Internal Revenue Code, as from 18 time to time amended, that is registered with the department pursuant to 19 section four hundred eight of the agriculture and markets law. For 20 purposes of sections seven hundred fifty-three-a, seven hundred fifty- 21 three-b, seven hundred fifty-three-c and seven hundred fifty-three-d of 22 this article, "pet dealer" shall mean any person who engages in the sale 23 or offering for sale of more than nine animals per year for profit to 24 the public. Such definition shall include breeders who sell animals; but 25 it shall not include the following: 26 (a) Any breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to the consumer 27 fewer than [twenty-five] fifteen animals per year that are born and 28 raised on the breeders residential premises. 29 (b) Any municipal pound or shelter established and maintained pursuant 30 to subdivision one of section one hundred fourteen of the agriculture 31 and markets law. 32 (c) Any duly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to 33 animals, duly incorporated humane society, duly incorporated animal 34 protective association or other duly incorporated animal adoption or 35 animal rescue organization that is exempt from taxes pursuant to para- 36 graph (3) of subsection (c) of section 501 of the federal Internal 37 Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 501, or any subsequent corresponding sections of 38 the federal Internal Revenue Code, as from time to time amended, that is 39 registered with the department pursuant to section four hundred eight of 40 the agriculture and markets law. 41 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 42 it shall have become a law.