A 1648: Relates to the care and collection of abandoned animals on vacant property; requires notification to the appropriate authorities by anyone authorized to be on vacant land where such person finds an animal which based on its physical appearance or lack of available food or water appears abandoned, within six hours of an encounter.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1648 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the care and collection of animals on vacant property The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 373 of the agriculture and markets law is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 3 2-a. a. Notwithstanding sections thirteen hundred seven and nineteen 4 hundred seventy-one of the real property actions and proceedings law or 5 any other provision of law to the contrary, any person or entity who is 6 authorized to be on property that has been vacated as a result of an 7 eviction, property foreclosure, forfeiture or default on a mortgage, 8 trust deed or land sales contract, or abandonment who encounters an 9 animal which based on its physical appearance or lack of available food 10 or water appears abandoned on such property shall promptly, but not 11 later than six hours after such encounter, notify the dog control offi- 12 cer, the police, or agent or officer of a duly incorporated society for 13 the prevention of cruelty to animals about such encounter, for the 14 purpose of promptly retrieving or providing necessary care for such 15 animal at the property until the animal can be retrieved. Animals 16 removed from the premises shall be placed in the custody of a pound, 17 duly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, duly 18 incorporated humane society, or duly incorporated animal protective 19 association and cared for in accordance with the provisions of this 20 section, section three hundred seventy-four of this article, section one 21 hundred seventeen of this chapter, and all other laws and ordinances 22 that govern the humane treatment of animals. Failure to provide notifi- 23 cation as provided for in this subdivision shall be a violation. 24 b. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict in 25 any way agents or officers of societies for the prevention of cruelty to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04156-01-5 
 A. 1648 2 1 animals or the police from enforcing provisions of this article or any 2 other law relating to abandonment of animals or the inhumane treatment 3 of or cruelty to animals. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 5 have become a law.