A 862: Prohibits the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals; provides that violations shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 862 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, COLTON, ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, OTIS, GONZA- LEZ-ROJAS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals 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 11-1908 to read as follows: 3 § 11-1908. Prohibits the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus 4 animals. 5 1. No person shall take, as defined in subdivision thirteen of section 6 11-0103 of this article, an animal that such person knows or has reason 7 to know is presently or was formerly a part of a zoo, petting zoo, 8 carnival, or circus. 9 2. No zoo, petting zoo, carnival, or circus or any person licensed or 10 required to be licensed as an exhibitor under the Animal Welfare Act, 7 11 USC section 2131 et seq., shall sell, offer for sale, distribute, barter 12 or donate any animal wherein such animal may be intentionally taken. 13 3. No person who owns, operates, or manages a facility including, but 14 not limited to a facility that harbors non-native big game mammals, or 15 any other facility that permits the taking of animals shall purchase, 16 accept or receive any animal such person knows or has reason to know is 17 presently or was formerly a part of a zoo, petting zoo, carnival, or 18 circus. 19 4. Violations of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not 20 less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars. 21 5. Nothing in this section shall preempt a municipal corporation from 22 enacting more restrictive laws, ordinances or regulations governing 23 animals in zoos, petting zoos, carnivals, or circuses. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 25 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03048-01-5