2023 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.