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July 6, 2010
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Abbate) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development, Job
Creation, Commerce and Industry
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, BUSINESS, OR ENTITY shall engage for a
fee in the business of operating a pet cemetery or pet crematorium or
SOLICIT BUSINESS IN NEW YORK STATE OR hold himself or herself out as
being able so to do unless [he or she] THAT PERSON, BUSINESS OR ENTITY
is licensed [therefor] pursuant to this article, OR IF THE BUSINESS IS
LOCATED OUTSIDE NEW YORK STATE SUCH BUSINESS SHALL USE FACILITIES AND
PROCEDURES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE. Nothing
herein 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.
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