A 3065: Relates to local government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products, including but not limited to any article of clothing, fashion accessory, or home decoration that is made in whole or part of real fur.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3065 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a 2 new section 11-0114 to read as follows: 3 § 11-0114. Regulation of the real fur trade. 4 Nothing in this chapter, the general business law, the agriculture and 5 markets law or in regulations promulgated under the authority of such 6 chapters, shall be construed to prevent any municipal corporation or any 7 other local governing body from adopting and enforcing laws prohibiting 8 or restricting trade in or sale of real fur products, including but not 9 limited to any article of clothing, fashion accessory or home decoration 10 that is made in whole or part of real fur. For the purposes of this 11 section, "real fur" shall have the same meaning as in section three 12 hundred ninety-nine-aaa of the general business law. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06353-01-5