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                                   3511
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
   vehicle  and  traffic  law  and  the state finance law, in relation to
   funding the animal population control fund

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  17-812 of the administrative code of the city of
 New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FIFTEEN PERCENT OF THE BALANCE OF THE  FUND
 AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH FISCAL YEAR SHALL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF IMPLEMENTATION AND PROMOTION OF THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM
 ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO SECTION 17-811 OF THIS CHAPTER. SUCH PROMOTION
 SHALL INCLUDE EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE  BENEFITS  ASSOCIATED  WITH
 SPAYING AND NEUTERING AND WHERE TO OBTAIN LOW-COST SPAYING AND NEUTERING
 SERVICES.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended  by  chapter  577  of  the  laws  of 2007, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. A distinctive Animal Population Control Fund plate issued  pursuant
 to  this  section  shall  be  issued  in the same manner as other number
 plates upon the payment of the regular registration  fee  prescribed  by
 section  four  hundred  one  of  this article provided, however, that an
 additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be charged
 for such plate. All monies received as annual service charges under this
 section shall be deposited  to  the  credit  of  the  animal  population
 control  fund  established  pursuant  to  section ninety-seven-xx of the
 state finance law, and shall  be  used  for  animal  population  control
 programs  undertaken  pursuant to section one hundred seventeen-a of the
 agriculture and markets law, EXCEPT THAT ALL MONIES RECEIVED  AS  ANNUAL
 SERVICE CHARGES UNDER THIS SECTION FROM NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS SHALL BE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 DEPOSITED  TO  THE  CREDIT OF THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL FUND CREATED
 PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-812 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK AND SHALL BE USED FOR THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM  UNDER-
 TAKEN  PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-811 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK.
   § 3. Section 97-xx of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, ALL MONIES DEPOSIT-
 ED, CREDITED TO OR TRANSFERRED FROM ANY FUND OR  SOURCE  TO  THE  ANIMAL
 POPULATION  CONTROL FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, INCLUDING
 BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO,  SECTIONS  THREE  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-SEVEN-A,  THREE
 HUNDRED  SEVENTY-NINE,  NINETY-SIX-E AND NINETY-SIX-H OF THE AGRICULTURE
 AND MARKETS LAW, SECTION THREE HUNDRED  NINETY-NINE-AA  OF  THE  GENERAL
 BUSINESS LAW, AND SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-P OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC
 LAW,  THAT EMANATE FROM ANY RESIDENT OR SOURCE IN NEW YORK CITY SHALL BE
 FORWARDED BY THE STATE COMPTROLLER TO THE ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL FUND
 ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 17-812 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE
 CITY OF NEW YORK.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.