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                                   3261
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, COLTON -- 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.