Senate Bill S1504

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to pygmy pigs

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S1504 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §206, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S7189

2017-S1504 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to promulgate necessary rules and regulations permitting municipalities to allow pygmy pigs as pets; defines "pygmy pigs".

2017-S1504 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1504 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1504
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to pygmy pigs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
   31.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL PROMULGATE ANY NECESSARY RULES AND REGU-
 LATIONS PERMITTING MUNICIPALITIES TO ALLOW PYGMY PIGS AS PETS.  FOR  THE
 PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "PYGMY PIG" MEANS A PIG OR HOG
 CLASSIFIED AS SUS SCROFA  JUBATUS  MULLER,  OR  SUS  SCROFA  (CRISTATUS)
 VITTATUS,  AND  COMMONLY  REFERRED  TO  AS A VIETNAMESE POT-BELLIED PIG,
 PYGMY PIG OR MINI-PIG, WHICH STANDS NO HIGHER THAN TWENTY-TWO INCHES  AT
 THE SHOULDER AND WEIGHS NO MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01257-02-7

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