Assembly Bill A10194

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to musical instruments containing ivory or rhinoceros horn

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  • 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-A10194 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7955
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0535-a, En Con L; amd §7, Chap 326 of 2014
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S2887

2013-A10194 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to musical instruments containing ivory or rhinoceros horn; specifies amount allowable for instruments for elephant ivory and mammoth ivory; requires documentation to show articles with mammoth ivory being sold, offered for sale, traded, bartered or distributed were obtained prior to the effective date of this act.

2013-A10194 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10194

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            November 12, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sweeney,
  Gottfried,  Glick,  Thiele,  Cymbrowitz,  Lifton,  Jaffee,  Zebrowski,
  Titone,  Otis, Rozic, Englebright, Paulin, Benedetto, Simotas, Stirpe,
  Quart, Markey, Schimel, Weinstein) -- (at request of the Governor)  --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
  musical instruments containing ivory or rhinoceros horn; and to  amend
  chapter  326  of the laws of 2014 amending the environmental conserva-
  tion law relating to prohibiting the purchase and sale of ivory  arti-
  cles and rhinoceros horns and increasing the penalties for the illegal
  sale  of  such  articles,  in  relation to amending the effective date
  thereof and permitting the sale of mammoth items through June 30, 2015

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  d of subdivision 3 of section 11-0535-a of the
environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 326 of the  laws  of
2014, is amended to read as follows:
  d.  the  ivory  article  or rhinoceros horn is [part] LESS THAN TWENTY
PERCENT BY VOLUME of a musical instrument,  including,  without  limita-
tion,  string  and  wind instruments and pianos, and the owner or seller
provides historical documentation as the department may require,  demon-
strating  provenance and showing the item was manufactured no later than
nineteen hundred seventy-five IF THE INSTRUMENT CONTAINS ELEPHANT IVORY,
OR JUNE THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN IF THE INSTRUMENT CONTAINS ONLY
MAMMOTH IVORY.
  S 2. Section 7 of chapter 326 of the laws of 2014 amending  the  envi-
ronmental conservation law relating to prohibiting the purchase and sale
of  ivory articles and rhinoceros horns and increasing penalties for the
illegal sale of such articles, is amended to read as follows:
  S 7. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided,  however,  any
person  who  has  been  issued  a license or permit allowing the sale of
elephant ivory articles or rhinoceros horns prior to the effective  date
of  this  act  may  sell  such articles listed on such license or permit
until such license or permit has expired; AND PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT ANY

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

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