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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 04:52:31+00:00

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Note: Title 17-327 is added below as underlined. It essentially repeals Title seventeen. New text is underlined; deleted text is bracketed.
(a) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity.
2. The owner shall sell of donate the horse to a duly incorporated animal sanctuary or duly incorporated animal protection organization whose president or executive director signs an assurance that the horse will not be sold and shall be kept solely as a companion animal and not employed in another horse-drawn carriage business and will be cared for humanely for the remainder of the horse's natural life.
§ 17-3331 Regulations. a. The commissioner, with the advice of the advisory board as hereinafter established, shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter and to promote the health, safety and well being of the horses which are required to be licensed hereunder and of members of the public who hire such horses.
c. Standing stalls in stall shall be of a size specified by regulation of the commissioner.
§2. Subdivisions o and p of section 17-330 of subchapter three of title seventeen of the administrative code of the city of New York are REPEALED.
3. One of such members first appointed shall serve for a term ending on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred eighty-four.
§4. Section 17-332 as added by local law 2 of 1994, is renumbered as section 17-333 and section 17-333 as amended by Local Law 2 of 1994 and subdivision a of section 17-334 of subchapter three of title seventeen of the administrative code of the city of New York are REPEALED.
§5. Section 17-344.1 of subchapter three of title seventeen of the administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED.
§6. Sections 19-174 and 19-175 of subchapter two of title nineteen of the administrative code of the city of New York are REPEALED.
§8. Subdivisions 5 as amended by Local Law 2 of 1994, 6 as amended by Local Law 31 of 1995, 7 and 8 of section 20-372 of subchapter twenty-one of title twenty of the administrative code of the city of New York are REPEALED and subdivision 9 is renumbered as subdivision 5 and subdivision 10 is renumbered as subdivision 6.
§12. Sections 20-377 and 20.377.1 of subchapter twenty-one of title twenty of the administrative code of the city of New York are REPEALED.
§15. Sections 20-380 as enacted by local law 2 of 1994, 20-381, 20-381.1 and 20-382 of subchapter twenty-one of title twenty of the administrative code of the city of New York are REPEALED.
§16. Subdivisions b, c and d of section 20-383 of subchapter twenty-one of title twenty of the administrative code of the city of New York are REPEALED and section 20-383 is renumbered as section 20-379 and amended to read as follows.
§17. Section 20-384 of subchapter twenty-one of title twenty of the administrative code of the city of New York is renumbered as section 20-380.
§18. This local law shall take effect in six months.
WHEREAS, after observing urban conditions, accidents, and maltreatment of animals and their inappropriate presence in localities, Friends of Animals, and other animal groups have opposed such operations.
Section 17-330, Commercial Animal-Drawn Carriages Prohibited.
Public Place. Shall mean any public grounds, street, road right-of-way, alley, sidewalk, park or any other open property within the city of New York City, New York, to which the general public is licensed or invited to enter, which such open property specifically includes parking lots and parking areas or commercial establishments.
Persons. Shall include any individual, corporation, partnership, association, club, or any other legal entity.
2. Unlawful to operate commercial animal-drawn vehicles in public places. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or cause to be operated in any public place within the City any vehicle, carriage, or other apparatus which is powered or propelled by an animal independent of or in conjunction with a mechanized means of power or propulsion.
3. Violation: penalty. Any person who violated any provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction, be punished by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00) per incident.
4. Severability. If any provision of this Section or the application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or application of this Section which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end the provisions of this Section are herby declared severable.
Section 2. That all parts or section of the Administrative Code of the City of New York in conflict with the provisions of this section be, and they are hereby repealed insofar as the same affect this section.
Section 3. This section of the Administrative Code of the City of New York shall be published in accordance with the requirements of law.
Section 4. This section of the administrative code of the city of New York shall become effective at such time as this amendment has been duly recorded in the Public Records of New York City.

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