 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1504
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 10, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to pygmy pigs
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
     3    31.  The  commissioner  shall promulgate any necessary rules and regu-
     4  lations permitting municipalities to allow pygmy pigs as pets.  For  the
     5  purposes  of  this  subdivision, the term "pygmy pig" means a pig or hog
     6  classified as Sus scrofa  jubatus  Muller,  or  Sus  scrofa  (cristatus)
     7  vittatus,  and  commonly  referred  to  as a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig,
     8  pygmy pig or mini-pig, which stands no higher than twenty-two inches  at
     9  the shoulder and weighs no more than two hundred pounds.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01257-02-7
Relates to pygmy pigs

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