NY Gen Bus L § 750-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GBS - General Business Article 35-C - Operation of Pet Cemeteries and Pet Crematoriums 750-A - Definitions.

§  750-a.  Definitions.  As  used  in this article, unless the context requires otherwise:   1. "Person" means an individual,  corporation,  company,  partnership, municipality, not-for-profit corporation or any other entity whatsoever.   2.  "Licensee"  means a person as herein defined licensed to engage in the business of operating a pet cemetery or pet crematorium  under  this article.   3. "To engage for a fee in the business of operating a pet cemetery or pet  crematorium"  means  and  refers  to  a person who holds himself or herself out directly or indirectly, as being  able,  or  who  offers  or undertakes,  by  any means or method, to dispose of pet remains by earth burial, entombment, inurnment, cremation or other means.   4. "License fee" and "renewal fee" mean the fees required to accompany an application for issuance of any  license,  including  any  temporary, apprentice  or renewal license, pursuant to this article. Such fee shall be non-refundable.   5. "Pet cemetery"  means  any  land,  place,  structure,  facility  or building provided by any person for a fee, whether or not for profit, to veterinarians  or  members of the general public for use, or reservation for use, for the permanent interment or inurnment above or below  ground of pet remains. Provided, however, this definition shall not apply to:  (a)  rendering  plants  licensed  pursuant  to  article  five-C of the agriculture and markets law, or  (b) a landfill or other disposal facility at which solid waste, or its residue after treatment, is intentionally placed  and  at  which,  solid waste shall remain indefinitely.   6.  "Pet  crematorium"  means  any land, place, structure, facility or building provided by any person for a fee, whether or not for profit, to veterinarians or members of the general  public  for  the  cremation  of pets.  However,  a  pet  crematorium  shall  not  provide  for permanent interment  or  inurnment  of  pet  remains.  Provided,   however,   this definition  shall not apply to facilities designed for resource recovery as defined in section 27-0701 of  the  environmental  conservation  law. Provided  further,  that  it  shall  not  include  any disposal facility regulated  under  title  fifteen  of   article   twenty-seven   of   the environmental conservation law that is primarily engaged in incineration of medical waste.   7.  "Pet"  means any domestic animal that has been adapted or tamed to live in intimate association with people but is not  limited  to,  dogs, cats, rodents, fish, birds, snakes, turtles, lizards, frogs and rabbits.   8.  "Pet owner" means the person who is listed as the owner of the pet in veterinary records or pet cemetery or crematorium records or  his  or her  agent or employee. In the event that such pet owner is a minor then a parent or legal guardian or his or her  agent  or  employee  shall  be deemed  the pet owner for the purposes of the pet disposal form required in section seven hundred fifty-s of this article.   9. "Individual burial" means the interment of a single  pet's  remains in  a separate grave. However, nothing in this section shall prevent the interment of more than one pet in a grave with the  written  consent  of the pet owner.   10.  "Mass  burial" means the interment of pet remains communally in a grave containing more than one pet.   11. "Individual cremation" means  the  cremation  of  a  single  pet's remains  in  a  separate  receptacle  that  allows the pet's cremains to remain separate from the cremains of other pets.   12. "Mass cremation" means the  cremation  of  pets  communally  in  a receptacle containing more than one pet.    13.  "Veterinarian" means a person licensed to practice the profession of veterinary medicine as defined by section sixty-seven hundred one  of the education law.   14. "Entombment" means the placement of a pet in a grave or tomb.   15. "Inurnment" means the placement of pet cremains in a grave, urn or tomb.   16. "Land used in agricultural production" means such lands as defined in  subdivision four of section three hundred one of the agriculture and markets law.