Bill Text: NY S06211 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that "wild animal" means indigenous, non-domesticated animals native to the country in which they live and "exotic animal" means a wild animal with an origin of a different continent; adds certain wild or exotic animals to the list of non-companion animals; provides certain owners of wild or exotic animals with a license process.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-09 - referred to environmental conservation [S06211 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06211-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6211--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
          Conservation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to  wild
          or exotic animals

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph e of subdivision 6  of  section  11-0103  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation law, as amended by chapter 10 of the laws of
     3  2005, is amended to read as follows:
     4    e. "Wild or exotic animal" shall not  include  "companion  animal"  as
     5  defined  in  section  three hundred fifty of the agriculture and markets
     6  law.  "Wild animal" means indigenous, non-domesticated animals native to
     7  the country in which they live. "Exotic animal" means a wild animal with
     8  an origin of a different continent. Wild or exotic animal includes,  and
     9  is limited to, any or all of the following genus, orders and families:
    10    (1) Nonhuman primates and prosimians,
    11    (2) Felidae and all hybrids thereof, with the exception of the species
    12  Felis  catus (domesticated and feral cats, which shall mean domesticated
    13  cats that were formerly owned and that have been abandoned and that  are
    14  no  longer socialized, as well as offspring of such cats) and hybrids of
    15  Felis catus that are registered by the American Cat Fanciers Association
    16  or the International Cat Association provided that such cats be  without
    17  any wild felid parentage for a minimum of five generations,
    18    (3)  Canidae (with the exception of domesticated dogs and captive bred
    19  fennec foxes (vulpes zerda)),
    20    (4) Ursidae,
    21    (5) All reptiles that are venomous by nature, pursuant  to  department
    22  regulation, and the following species and orders: Burmese Python (Python
    23  m.  bivittatus),  Reticulated  Python (Python reticulatus), African Rock

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10398-04-3
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     1  Python  (Python  sabae),  Green  Anaconda  (Eunectes  maurinus),  Yellow
     2  Anaconda  (Eunectes  notaeus),  Australian  Amethystine  Python (Morelia
     3  amethistina and Morelia  kinghorni),  Indian  Python  (Python  molurus),
     4  Asiatic  (water) Monitor (Varanus salvator), Nile Monitor (Varanus nilo-
     5  citus), White Throat Monitor (Varanus albigularis), Black Throat Monitor
     6  (Varanus albigularis ionides) and Crocodile Monitor (Varanus salvadori),
     7  Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodensis) and any hybrid thereof,
     8    (6) Crocodylia,
     9    (7) Macropodidae including but not limited  to  kangaroos,  wallabies,
    10  tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and quokkas,
    11    (8) Cetacea (including whales and dolphins),
    12    (9) Elephantidae (elephants),
    13    (10) Hyaenidae (hyenas),
    14    (11) Perissodactyla (including rhinoceroses, tapirs and zebras),
    15    (12) Pinnipedia (including seals, sea lions and walruses),
    16    (13) Struthio (ostriches),
    17    (14) Casuariiformes (including cassowaries and emus),
    18    (15) Xenarthra (including sloths, anteaters and armadillos),
    19    (16) Viverridae (including bearcats),
    20    (17) Cynomys, and
    21    (18) Capybaras.
    22    §  2.  Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 11-0512 of the environ-
    23  mental conservation law, as amended by chapter 326 of the laws of  2012,
    24  is amended to read as follows:
    25    a.  knowingly  possess,  harbor,  sell,  barter, transfer, exchange or
    26  import any wild or exotic animal for use as a pet  in  New  York  state,
    27  except as provided in subdivision three of this section; or
    28    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.