* § 8-c. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight of this act,
the power to issue licenses and renewals and to collect fees therefor,
to maintain a shelter or other facility for lost, strayed and homeless
animals in each borough and otherwise to carry out the provisions of
this act may be transferred to any city having a population of over two
million and exercised within such city by an agency designated by the
mayor of such city. Such agency so designated shall be authorized to
enter into a contract or contracts for the performance of some or all of
the duties to be performed under this act with one or more organizations
incorporated under the not-for-profit corporation law, except any such
organization the corporate purposes of which include or which otherwise
engages in the use of animals for research, experimentation, testing,
teaching or demonstration, or any such organization, the directors,
officers, employees or agents of which have been found to have engaged
in any of the activities prohibited in section twelve of this act. The
transfer of powers authorized by this section shall take effect:

(1) on the effective date of an agreement between such city, acting by
its mayor, and the American society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals providing for the orderly transfer of the performance of such
duties to an agency of the city; or

(2) eighteen months after notice by such society to such city of such
society's intention to relinquish the powers delegated to it by this act
or such later date as may be specified in such notice, provided,
however, that such society shall continue to exercise the powers so
delegated for such additional period of time as may be necessary to
ensure an orderly transfer of the exercise of such powers to a city
agency designated in accordance with this section; or

(3) no less than eighteen months after notice by such city to such
society of the city's intention to assume such powers or such later date
as may be specified in such notice.

* NB Repealed February 15, 2015