A8618A-2011 Actions

• Jan 30, 2012: print number 8618a
• Jan 30, 2012: amend and recommit to consumer affairs and protection
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to consumer affairs and protection
• Sep 21, 2011: referred to consumer affairs and protection

A8618A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 8618--A
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 September 21, 2011
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on  Consumer Affairs and Protection -- recommitted to the Committee on
 Consumer Affairs and Protection in accordance with  Assembly  Rule  3,
 sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee
 

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:

 

Section 1.

Section 750-b of the general  business  law,  as  added  by
 chapter 526 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:

 

S  750-b.  License required. [On and after July thirty-first, nineteen
 hundred ninety-three, no person shall engage for a fee in  the  business
 of  operating  a  pet  cemetery  or  pet  crematorium or hold himself or
 herself out as being able so to do unless he or she is licensed therefor
 pursuant to this article] THE STATE SHALL REQUIRE THAT  ANY  INDIVIDUAL,
 BUSINESS,  OR  ENTITY  OFFERING  OR  SOLICITING  PET CREMATION OR BURIAL
 SERVICES FOR PROFIT, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, USE A LICENSED  CREMATORY
 OR  CEMETERY  LOCATED  IN, LICENSED BY, AND SUBJECT TO REGULATION BY THE
 STATE OF NEW YORK.  Nothing [herein] IN THIS SECTION  shall  prohibit  a
 person  licensed  in accordance with the provisions of this article from
 employing individuals to assist in the operation of a  pet  cemetery  or
 pet crematorium.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11419-05-2

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