Requires approval of the commissioner for compromise of a fine or penalty relating to kosher violations. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Prohibits the repackaging of meat offered for sale once the first sale date or last sell-by date is stamped or labeled on the packaging; also prohibits the changing of such date; treats such meat as unwholesome; provides that the period between the first date for sale label and the last date for sale label be no more than three days. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Requires the release of a shelter animal to a rescue group upon request of the rescue group prior to euthanasia of the animal. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: AGRICULTURE

Increases state assistance payments for county approved agricultural and farmland protection plans, from 75% to 85% of the cost thereof. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Requires unsealing of court records of youthful offenders convicted of animal abuse offense; provides that such persons undergo a psychiatric evaluation and treatment where necessary. / Sponsor: BALL Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides a tax incentive to domestic life insurance companies to invest up to 1% of admitted assets in the purchase of agricultural land to be kept in agricultural production for the cultivation of fruit or vegetables, or the processing of fruit products or vegetable products, which land is subject to a conservation easement and receives or is eligible to receive an agricultural assessment; enacts related provision relating to conservation easements. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides that no dog shall be restrained by a tethering device attached to a fixed point or to a running cable trolley system for more than six hours per day. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGRICULTURE

Establishes a five percent surcharge on the sale of animals by pet dealers and the animal shelter and wildlife rehabilitator account to be administered by an animal protection organization to be chosen by the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: AGRICULTURE

Requires municipalities which sell, transfer or lease community garden real property to use proceeds therefrom for community garden purposes. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGRICULTURE

Extends permanently provisions relating to licensing of establishments where animals or fowls are slaughtered if such establishment is located within 1500 feet of a residential dwelling in a city with a population of one million or more. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: AGRICULTURE

Prohibits the repackaging of meat offered for sale once the first sale date or last sell-by date is stamped or labeled on the packaging; also prohibits the changing of such date; treats such meat as unwholesome; provides that the period between the first date for sale label and the last date for sale label be no more than three days. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Limits the animal dealers that are exempt under the provisions of article 7 of the agriculture and markets law relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs; applies provisions to dealers licensed as a class A dealer under the Federal Animal Welfare Act that sells dogs exclusively to USDA registered research facilities; requires a certificate of exemption. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: AGRICULTURE

Directs commissioner of agriculture and markets to require that the proprietor of a business where a kosher food violation of law occurred to post a report of such violation in the public portion of every premises in which a food business is conducted, for a period of time beginning with the date the sanction, penalty or both are imposed; requires such report be posted for a period of at least six months. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and markets to institute an action in law or equity regarding food and color additives and specifically enumerates such violations subject to enforcement and penalties. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to penalties and fees for pet dealers and their violations. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to administrative hearings and processes as they apply to pet dealers. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Allows livestock owners to purchase and possess rabies vaccine and to vaccinate their livestock against rabies during emergency rabies outbreak situations as determined by the commissioner of health; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions after two years; defines livestock for the purpose of this section. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Includes land used for processing or retail merchandising of agricultural products within the real property tax exemption for land used in agricultural production. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Increases the penalty for multiple convictions of torturing, killing or failing to provide sustenance to an animal to a class E felony, if convicted within five years from the date of a prior conviction. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides that the department of agriculture and markets must order a retail food store failing three consecutive sanitary inspections to cease retail operations or suspend or revoke its license until it passes inspection; also provides for a five hundred dollar fine for stores failing to post inspection reports or make copies available to the public upon request. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGRICULTURE