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Assembly Bill A8618A

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires all pet crematorium & cemeteries to comply with NY law

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2011-A8618 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5313
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §750-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A3179, S2097

2011-A8618 - Summary

Relates to requiring individuals and businesses who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial services for profit to use a facility that is in compliance with New York state laws.

2011-A8618 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8618

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                           September 21, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Consumer Affairs and Protection

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 shall engage for a fee in the business
of operating a pet cemetery  or  pet  crematorium  or  hold  himself  or
herself out as being able so to do unless he or she is licensed therefor
pursuant  to  this article] THE STATE SHALL REQUIRE THAT ANY INDIVIDUAL,
BUSINESS, OR ENTITY OFFERING  OR  SOLICITING  PET  CREMATION  OR  BURIAL
SERVICES  FOR PROFIT, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, USE A LICENSED CREMATORY
OR CEMETERY LOCATED IN, LICENSED BY, AND SUBJECT TO  REGULATION  BY  THE
STATE  OF  NEW YORK.   Nothing [herein] IN THIS SECTION 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 and shall apply  to  rele-
vant services provided after December 31, 2012.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11419-02-1

2011-A8618A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5313
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §750-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A3179, S2097

2011-A8618A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring individuals and businesses who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial services for profit to use a facility that is in compliance with New York state laws.

2011-A8618A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 8618--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                           September 21, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Consumer Affairs and Protection -- recommitted to the Committee on
  Consumer Affairs and Protection in accordance with  Assembly  Rule  3,
  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
  amended and recommitted to said committee

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 shall engage for a fee in  the  business
of  operating  a  pet  cemetery  or  pet  crematorium or hold himself or
herself out as being able so to do unless he or she is licensed therefor
pursuant to this article] THE STATE SHALL REQUIRE THAT  ANY  INDIVIDUAL,
BUSINESS,  OR  ENTITY  OFFERING  OR  SOLICITING  PET CREMATION OR BURIAL
SERVICES FOR PROFIT, IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, USE A LICENSED  CREMATORY
OR  CEMETERY  LOCATED  IN, LICENSED BY, AND SUBJECT TO REGULATION BY THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.  Nothing [herein] IN THIS SECTION  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.
                                                           LBD11419-05-2

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