Bill Text: NY S05313 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring individuals and businesses who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial services for profit to use a facility that is in compliance with New York state laws.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-21 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [S05313 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05313-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5313
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring indi-
         viduals and businesses who offer or solicit pet  cremation  or  burial
         services for profit use a facility that is in compliance with New York
         state laws
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 750-b of the general  business  law,  as  added  by
    2  chapter 526 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  750-b.  License required. [On and after July thirty-first, nineteen
    4  hundred ninety-three, no person shall engage for a fee in  the  business
    5  of  operating  a  pet  cemetery  or  pet  crematorium or hold himself or
    6  herself out as being able so to do unless he or she is licensed therefor
    7  pursuant to this article] THE STATE SHALL REQUIRE THAT  ANY  INDIVIDUAL,
    8  BUSINESS,  OR  ENTITY  OFFERING  OR  SOLICITING  PET CREMATION OR BURIAL
    9  SERVICES FOR PROFIT, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, USE A LICENSED  CREMATORY
   10  OR  CEMETERY  LOCATED  IN, LICENSED BY, AND SUBJECT TO REGULATION BY THE
   11  STATE OF NEW YORK.  Nothing [herein] IN THIS SECTION  shall  prohibit  a
   12  person  licensed  in accordance with the provisions of this article from
   13  employing individuals to assist in the operation of a  pet  cemetery  or
   14  pet crematorium.
   15    S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to rele-
   16  vant services provided after December 31, 2011.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11419-01-1