New York Assembly Bill A03122 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3122 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. 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: 1 Section 1. Section 17-812 of the administrative code of the city of 2 New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. An amount not to exceed fifteen percent of the balance of the fund 4 at the beginning of each fiscal year shall be available for the purposes 5 of implementation and promotion of the animal population control program 6 established pursuant to section 17-811 of this chapter. Such promotion 7 shall include educating the public about the benefits associated with 8 spaying and neutering and where to obtain low-cost spaying and neutering 9 services. 10 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 404-p of the vehicle and traffic law, as 11 amended by chapter 577 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as 12 follows: 13 2. A distinctive Animal Population Control Fund plate issued pursuant 14 to this section shall be issued in the same manner as other number 15 plates upon the payment of the regular registration fee prescribed by 16 section four hundred one of this article provided, however, that an 17 additional annual service charge of twenty-five dollars shall be charged 18 for such plate. All monies received as annual service charges under this 19 section shall be deposited to the credit of the animal population 20 control fund established pursuant to section ninety-seven-xx of the 21 state finance law, and shall be used for animal population control 22 programs undertaken pursuant to section one hundred seventeen-a of the 23 agriculture and markets law, except that all monies received as annual 24 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. LBD05601-01-5 
 A. 3122 2 1 deposited to the credit of the animal population control fund created 2 pursuant to section 17-812 of the administrative code of the city of New 3 York and shall be used for the animal population control program under- 4 taken pursuant to section 17-811 of the administrative code of the city 5 of New York. 6 § 3. Section 97-xx of the state finance law is amended by adding a new 7 subdivision 5 to read as follows: 8 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, all monies deposit- 9 ed, credited to or transferred from any fund or source to the animal 10 population control fund established pursuant to this section, including 11 but not limited to, sections three hundred seventy-seven-a, three 12 hundred seventy-nine, ninety-six-e and ninety-six-h of the agriculture 13 and markets law, section three hundred ninety-nine-aa of the general 14 business law, and section four hundred four-p of the vehicle and traffic 15 law, as added by chapter one hundred sixty-six of the laws of one thou- 16 sand nine hundred ninety-six, that emanate from any resident or source 17 in New York city shall be forwarded by the state comptroller to the 18 animal population control fund established pursuant to section 17-812 of 19 the administrative code of the city of New York. 20 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 21 have become a law.