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NY S07119
Bill
Status
1/8/2020
Primary Sponsor
Monica Martinez
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AI Summary
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Property owners and lessors must inspect vacated properties within three days of vacancy due to eviction, foreclosure, forfeiture, mortgage default, or abandonment.
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Upon discovering an apparently abandoned animal, the owner, lessor, or their designee must immediately notify the dog control officer, police, or a duly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
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Property owners, lessors, or their designees who encounter abandoned animals are not deemed owners, possessors, or persons having charge or custody of those animals.
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Civil penalties for non-compliance are up to $500 for a first offense and up to $1,000 for second and subsequent offenses.
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Penalty funds collected shall be deposited into the animal population control fund established under state finance law.
Legislative Description
Relates to the inspection of property that has been vacated for abandoned animals; requires property owners and lessors to inspect such property within three days and to immediately notify the appropriate authorities when such person finds an animal which appears to be abandoned.
Last Action
REFERRED TO DOMESTIC ANIMAL WELFARE
1/8/2020