2021 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 26 - Miscellaneous
399-AA - Prohibition of the Selling of Fur, Hair, Skin or Flesh of a Dog or Cat.

§  399-aa. Prohibition of the selling of fur, hair, skin or flesh of a
dog or cat. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or
corporation to knowingly import,  sell,  offer  for  sale,  manufacture,
distribute,  transport  or  otherwise  market or trade in the fur, hair,
skin or flesh of a domesticated dog (canis familiaris)  or  domesticated
cat (felis catus or domesticus), whether domestically raised or imported
from  another country, or any product or item containing or comprised of
the fur, hair, skin or flesh of a dog or cat. As used  in  this  section
the  term  "domesticated  dog  or  cat" shall not mean or include coyote
(ranis latrans), fox  (vulpes  volpes,  vulpes  cinereoargenteus),  lynx
(felis lynx) or bobcat (felis rufus).
  2.  Manufacturers  or  suppliers  shall  provide certification to each
retailer that any fur, hair, skin or flesh contained in  such  items  is
not derived from domesticated dog or domesticated cat.
  3. The state commissioner of agriculture and markets shall establish a
standard for the certification required by the provisions of subdivision
two of this section on the effective date of this section.
  4.  A violation of this section shall be punishable by a civil penalty
of up to one thousand dollars for an individual and up to five  thousand
dollars  for  a  corporation  for  the  first  violation. Any subsequent
violation shall be punishable by a civil penalty of  up  to  twenty-five
thousand dollars.
  5.  Any  civil penalties collected pursuant to this section of law are
payable to the animal population control fund  established  pursuant  to
section ninety-seven-xx of the state finance law.
  6.  (a) No provision of this section shall be construed to prohibit or
interfere with any properly conducted scientific tests,  experiments  or
investigations  involving  the use of dog or cat fur or flesh, performed
or conducted in laboratories or institutions,  which  are  approved  for
these  purposes  by  the state commissioner of health in accordance with
section three hundred fifty-three of the agriculture and markets law.
  (b) No provision of this section shall be construed  to  prohibit  any
person,  firm,  partnership  or  corporation  from  importing,  selling,
offering  for  sale,  manufacturing,  distributing,   transporting,   or
otherwise  marketing  or  trading  in the fur, hair, skin, or flesh of a
domesticated dog or cat for the purposes of conducting scientific tests,
experiments or investigations that are to be performed or  conducted  in
laboratories  or  institutions, which are approved for these purposes by
the state commissioner  of  health  in  accordance  with  section  three
hundred fifty-three of the agriculture and markets law.