Senate Bill S2103

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to fees collected for animal licenses

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S2103 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§109, 110 & 111, Ag & Mkts L

2013-S2103 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to fees collected for animal licenses.

2013-S2103 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S2103 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2103

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 10, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture

AN  ACT  to  amend  the agriculture and markets law, in relation to fees
  collected for animal licenses

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 109 of the agriculture and markets
law,  as  amended by chapter 446 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read
as follows:
  3. Municipalities may provide for the establishment  and  issuance  of
purebred  licenses  and,  in the event they do so, shall provide for the
assessment of a surcharge of at least three dollars PER YEAR PER DOG for
the purposes of  carrying  out  animal  population  control  efforts  as
provided  in  section  one  hundred seventeen-a of this article. Munici-
palities which  issue  purebred  licenses  shall  remit  such  surcharge
collected to the commissioner ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
  S  2. Subdivision 3 of section 110 of the agriculture and markets law,
as amended by chapter 446 of the laws of 2012, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3.  In addition to the fee charged pursuant to subdivision one of this
section, all municipalities issuing dog licenses pursuant to this  arti-
cle  are  required  to  provide  for  the  assessment  of  an additional
surcharge of at least one dollar PER YEAR for EACH  altered  [dogs]  DOG
and  at  least  three dollars PER YEAR for EACH unaltered [dogs] DOG for
the purposes of  carrying  out  animal  population  control  efforts  as
provided  in  section  one  hundred  seventeen-a  of  this article. Such
surcharges shall be submitted by municipalities to the commissioner ON A
MONTHLY BASIS.
  S 3. Subdivision 4 of section 111 of the agriculture and markets  law,
as  amended by section 6 of part T of chapter 59 of the laws of 2010, is
amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05760-01-3

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