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Assembly Bill A4796

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Exempts cats considered hybrids from the definition of wildlife

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2009-A4796 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง11-0103, En Con L

2009-A4796 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts cats considered hybrids from the definition of wildlife; does not recognize wild parentage in the definition.

2009-A4796 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4796

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
  exempting cats considered hybrids from the definition of wildlife

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

  Section  1.  Subparagraph 2 of paragraph e of subdivision 6 of section
11-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter  10
of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  (2) Felidae and all hybrids thereof, with the exception of the species
Felis  catus (domesticated and feral cats, which shall mean domesticated
cats that were formerly owned and that have been abandoned and that  are
no  longer socialized, as well as offspring of such cats) and hybrids of
Felis catus that are registered by the American Cat Fanciers Association
or the International Cat Association [provided that such cats be without
any wild felid parentage for a minimum of five generations],
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08141-01-9

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