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2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 90-C - Prohibitions.

§ 90-c. Prohibitions.    1.  It  shall  be  unlawful for any person to
  purchase, or deal in, or sell cattle,  swine,  horses,  deer,  camelids,
  sheep,  goats  or  poultry at wholesale, or for any person to operate or
  conduct an auction where cattle, swine, horses, deer,  camelids,  sheep,
  goats  or  poultry  are  sold,  or  for any person to transport poultry,
  unless such wholesale cattle, swine, horse, deer, camelids, sheep, goats
  or poultry dealer or auctioneer or poultry transporter holds a  domestic
  animal health permit granted by the commissioner.
2. No person who holds or is required to hold a domestic animal health
  permit  shall  purchase,  sell or otherwise deal in cattle, deer, swine,
  camelids, sheep or goats unless and until an ear tag is securely affixed
  to the ear of such animal or unless such animal is otherwise  identified
  by  a registration number, distinctive tattoo, electronic identification
  device or other unique permanent mark or, for an animal  that  is  moved
  directly to slaughter, an official backtag.
3.  No  person  shall deface, obliterate or remove an ear tag or other
  identification mark affixed to an animal under his or  her  control,  or
  shall  affix an ear tag to the ear of an animal that has previously been
  affixed to the ear of another animal.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 90-D - Application and Permit Fees.

§ 90-d. Application and permit fees.  Application for an animal health
  permit  shall be made to the commissioner. The application shall be on a
  form prescribed by the commissioner  and  shall  be  accompanied  by  an
  animal  health  permit fee of fifty dollars. The applicant shall satisfy
  the commissioner of his character and responsibility and shall set forth
  such information as the commissioner shall require  regarding  the  past
  record  of  infection  or  contagion among domestic animals dealt in, or
  handled, or sold by him during the past five years. A  permit  shall  be
  issued  for  a  two  year  period  and  a  renewal  application shall be
  submitted to the commissioner on or before the thirtieth  day  prior  to
  the expiration of the permit.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 90-E - Refusing and Revoking Permits.

§ 90-e. Refusing  and  revoking  permits.  The  commissioner after due
  notice and opportunity of hearing to the applicant or permittee may deny
  an application for or revoke or refuse to renew a permit when he or  she
  is satisfied that the applicant or permittee has:
1.  violated  the  statutes  of the state of New York or of the United
  States or the official regulations of  the  commissioner  governing  the
  interstate  or intrastate movement, shipment or transportation of cattle
  or horses, swine, camelids, deer, sheep, goats or poultry;
2. made false or misleading statements in his or her  application  for
  an animal health permit or has made false or misleading statements as to
  the  health  or  physical  condition of cattle, horses, swine, camelids,
  deer, sheep, goats or poultry; regarding official tests;
3. knowingly sold for purposes other than  slaughter  cattle,  horses,
  swine,  camelids, deer, sheep, goats or poultry which were affected with
  a communicable disease;
4. failed to observe sanitary measures in barning,  stabling  premises
  or  vehicles used for the stabling, holding or transportation of cattle,
  horses, swine, camelids, deer, sheep, goats or poultry;
5. engaged in a course of dealing of such a nature as to  satisfy  the
  commissioner  of  his  or  her  inability  or  unwillingness properly to
  conduct the business for which an animal health permit has been issued;
6. been convicted of a felony;
7. had his or her animal health permit terminated or revoked;
8. ceased to operate the business for which the animal  health  permit
  was issued; or
9.  failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or the
  rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 90-F - Proceedings to Review.

§ 90-f. Proceedings  to  review.    The  action of the commissioner in
  denying an application or  revoking  an  animal  health  permit  may  be
  reviewed  in  the  manner provided by article seventy-eight of the civil
  practice law and rules and the decision of  the  commissioner  shall  be
  final  unless  within  thirty days from the date of service thereof upon
  the applicant or permittee affected  thereby  the  court  proceeding  is
  instituted  to  review such action. The pleadings upon which such review
  proceeding is instituted shall be served upon the commissioner  or  upon
  an  assistant  commissioner,  personally, in the manner provided for the
  personal service of a summons in an action unless a different manner  of
  service  is  provided  in an order to show cause granted by a justice of
  the supreme court.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 90-G - Records.

§ 90-g. Records.    All  records  as  now required by the commissioner
  respecting the health of domestic animals shall  be  continued  and  the
  commissioner  may require such other and further records as from time to
  time may seem to him to be necessary or desirable in his enforcement  of
  disease control.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 90-H - Violations; Remedies.

§ 90-h. Violations;  remedies.    The  commissioner may institute such
  action at law or in equity as may appear necessary to enforce compliance
  with any provision of the statutes, rules and orders  committed  to  his
  administration  in  regard  to  animal  health permits and infectious or
  communicable disease affecting domestic animals, and in addition to  any
  other  remedy under article three of this chapter or otherwise may apply
  for relief by injunction if necessary to  protect  the  public  interest
  without  being  compelled  to allege or prove that an adequate remedy at
  law does not exist. Such application may be made to the supreme court in
  any district or county as provided in the civil practice law and  rules,
  or to the supreme court in the third judicial district.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 91 - Hog Cholera and Pseudorabies Control; Indemnity.

§ 91. Hog  cholera  and  pseudorabies  control;  indemnity.    1.  The
  commissioner,  to  control,  suppress  or  eradicate  hog  cholera   and
  pseudorabies, may cause to be made appropriate examinations or tests for
  ascertaining  the  presence  or  absence of such diseases in swine.  If,
  from such examinations or tests, any swine be found to be infected  with
  or  exposed to hog cholera or pseudorabies and such condition be such as
  to cause the swine to be a menace to the health  of  other  animals  the
  commissioner  may  order  such  swine  to  be immediately slaughtered or
  otherwise disposed of as he may prescribe.
2. No swine infected with or exposed to hog  cholera  or  pseudorabies
  shall  be  sold or removed from the premises where examined, or from any
  other premises, except upon written permission of the commissioner.   No
  swine so infected or exposed shall be slaughtered or killed except under
  the supervision of the commissioner.
3.  The  commissioner,  within the appropriation for such purpose, may
  cause blood samples of swine to be taken and tested.
4. Swine killed on account of hog cholera  or  pseudorabies  shall  be
  appraised  and  indemnity shall be paid to the owner as provided in this
  article, except as otherwise specifically limited by this  section.  The
  owner shall be entitled to receive the net proceeds, if any, of the sale
  of the swine, and in addition thereto, within the appropriation for such
  purpose,  shall  be  paid  indemnity  in a sum not exceeding one hundred
  dollars for a registered purebred,  inbred  or  hybrid  swine,  and  not
  exceeding  forty  dollars  for  any other swine. A purebred swine is any
  breeding swine upon which a certificate of pure breeding has been issued
  by a purebred swine association;  an  inbred  or  hybrid  swine  is  any
  breeding  swine upon which a certificate or registration has been issued
  by a recognized inbred or hybrid registry association.  Certificates  of
  pure  breeding  or  registration  for  inbred  or  hybrid swine shall be
  presented at the time of appraisal or such swine will  be  appraised  as
  grades,  provided,  however, that in the absence of such certificates or
  registrations the commissioner may  grant  a  reasonable  time  for  the
  presentation  of  such  certificates  or registrations to the appraiser.
  The total amount receivable by the owner from the net  proceeds  of  the
  sale  of  the  swine  and  indemnity  from  the  federal  government and
  indemnity from the state shall,  in  every  case,  except  as  otherwise
  specifically  limited  by  this  section,  equal but not exceed the full
  appraised value of the swine.
5. The commissioner may adopt and enforce rules and  regulations,  and
  may  cooperate  with the authorities of the United States government and
  with local officials, to implement the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 95 - Protecting the Breeding of Pure Bred Stock.

§ 95. Protecting  the  breeding  of  pure  bred  stock.    It shall be
  unlawful for any person or persons owning or in the  possession  of  any
  bull of the age of more than six months, any stallion of the age of more
  than eighteen months, or buck or boar over five months of age, to suffer
  or permit such animal or animals to go, or range, or run at large on any
  lands  or  premises  without  the  consent of the person entitled to the
  possession of such land or premises.
No right of action shall accrue under this section to any person  who,
  being liable to contribute to the erection or repair of a division fence
  as  required  by  the  town  law,  shall  neglect  or refuse to make and
  maintain his proportion of such fence, or shall permit the  same  to  be
  out  of repair, for damages done by any animal described in this section
  coming, by reason of such defective fence, from  adjoining  lands  where
  such animal was lawfully kept.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 95-A - Animal Ear Tags or Other Identification.

§  95-a. Animal ear tags or other identification. A person who without
  authorization by the commissioner, (a) cuts out, removes, obliterates or
  destroys a New York state department of agriculture and markets official
  ear tag or other official New York state identification tag,  device  or
  mark  on any cattle, camelid, deer, sheep, goats or swine, as defined in
  this article, other than such identification which may be used  for  the
  owner's own records in the state of New York, or (b) inserts or attaches
  to  the  ear  of  any  cattle,  camelid, deer, sheep, goats or swine, as
  defined in this article, in the state of  New  York  a  New  York  state
  department  of agriculture and markets official ear tag or inserts in or
  attaches  to  any  such  animal  any  other  official  New  York   state
  identification  tag, device or mark other than such identification which
  may be used for the owner's own records that has not  been  duly  issued
  for said animal by the department is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 95-B - False Pedigree of Animals.

§ 95-b. False  pedigree  of  animals.    Every person who by any false
  pretense shall obtain from any club, association, society or company for
  improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine  or  other  domestic
  animals  the  registration  of  any animal in the herd register or other
  register of any such club, association, society or company or a transfer
  of any such registration, and every person who shall  knowingly  give  a
  false pedigree of any animal, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5 - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Calves and Veal; Pure Bred Stock; Certificates of Registry. › 96 - Certificates of Registry of Domestic Animals.

§ 96. Certificates  of  registry of domestic animals.  Certificates of
  registry, and of transfer of domestic animals when issued by  and  under
  seal  of  a  duly  organized  and  recognized corporation or association
  formed for the purpose of registering pure-bred domestic animals, may be
  received  in  evidence  in  any  action  or  proceeding,  and  shall  be
  presumptive evidence of the facts and circumstances stated therein.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-A - Licensing of Slaughterhouses › 96-A - Declaration of Policy and Purpose.

§ 96-a. Declaration   of  policy  and  purpose.    Whereas  unsanitary
  conditions in the slaughtering of animals and fowl for  food  have  been
  found  to  exist in this state, and whereas such conditions endanger the
  health and welfare of the people of the state, it is hereby declared  to
  be  a  matter  of  legislative determination that the supervision of the
  slaughtering of animals and fowl is in the  public  interest,  and  that
  this article is enacted in the exercise of the police power of the state
  and its purposes are the protection of the public health.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-A - Licensing of Slaughterhouses › 96-C - Posting of Inspection Results Required.

§  96-c.  Posting  of  inspection results required. Each person, firm,
  partnership or corporation licensed pursuant to this article shall  post
  a copy of the date and results of its most recent sanitary inspection by
  the  department  in a conspicuous location near each public entrance, as
  prescribed by the commissioner. Such copies shall also be made available
  to the public upon request.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-A - Licensing of Slaughterhouses › 96-D - Application of Article.

§ 96-d.  Application  of  article. Except for the absolute prohibition
  against  the  slaughtering  or  butchering  of  domesticated   dog   and
  domesticated  cat  to  create  food, meat, meat by-products or meat food
  products for human or animal consumption contained in this article which
  shall continue to apply notwithstanding the  following  exclusions  from
  this  article,  the remaining provisions of this article shall not apply
  to (a) any bona fide farmer who butchers his  own  domestic  animals  or
  fowl on his farm exclusively for use by him and members of his household
  and  his non-paying guests and employees, or (b) any custom slaughterer,
  (as used in this section, "custom slaughterer"  means  a  person,  firm,
  corporation   or   association   who   or  which  operates  a  place  or
  establishment where animals are  delivered  by  the  owner  thereof  for
  slaughter  exclusively  for use, in the household of such owner, by him,
  and members of his household and his non-paying  guests  and  employees,
  provided,  that  such custom slaughterer does not engage in the business
  of buying or selling any carcasses, parts of  carcasses,  meat  or  meat
  products  of any animal), or (c) any person who slaughters not more than
  two hundred fifty turkeys or an equivalent number of birds of all  other
  species raised by him on his own farm during the calendar year for which
  an  exemption is sought (four birds of other species shall be deemed the
  equivalent of one turkey), provided that such person does not engage  in
  buying  or  selling  poultry  products  other  than  those produced from
  poultry raised on his own farm, or (d) any person who donates,  and  any
  charitable  or  not-for-profit  organization that possesses, prepares or
  serves  game  or  wild  game  pursuant  to  section   11-0917   of   the
  environmental  conservation  law  (and  any person who processes game or
  wild game on behalf of such donor).
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-A - Licensing of Slaughterhouses › 96-E - Unlawful Acts.

§  96-e.  Unlawful acts. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
  partnership or corporation to operate any  slaughterhouse,  abattoir  or
  other  place  or  establishment where animals or fowl are slaughtered or
  where meat or meat food products are  prepared  or  processed  for  food
  unless such place or establishment is maintained and operated in a clean
  and  sanitary manner, and conducted in accordance with the provisions of
  this article and with the regulations of the commissioner.
2. It shall be unlawful to expose any meat, fowl or meat food  product
  in  any  slaughterhouse,  abattoir  or  other  place or establishment to
  insects, live animals  or  injurious  contamination;  or  to  slaughter,
  possess  or  sell unwholesome meat. Meat shall be unwholesome within the
  meaning of this article if it be from a diseased  animal  or  one  which
  shall  have  died  other  than  by  slaughter,  or if such meat shall be
  contaminated with filth or shall have  been  slaughtered,  processed  or
  handled under insanitary conditions.
3.   It  shall  be  unlawful  to  feed  hogs  uncooked  offal  from  a
  slaughterhouse.
4. It shall be unlawful for  any  slaughterhouse,  abattoir  or  other
  place  or  establishment,  or  for  any  person, to slaughter or butcher
  domesticated dog (canis familiaris) or domesticated cat (felis catus  or
  domesticus)  to  create  food, meat or meat products for human or animal
  consumption. A violation of this subdivision shall subject the  offender
  to  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 subject to a civil penalty of up to
  twenty-five thousand dollars. Any civil penalties collected pursuant  to
  this  subdivision  shall  be  paid to the animal population control fund
  established by section ninety-seven-xx of the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-H - Application of Article.

§  96-h.  Application of article. Notwithstanding any other provisions
  of this article, the  knowing  sale,  exposure  for  sale,  exchange  or
  transportation  at any and all places within the state of the fur, hair,
  skin or flesh of domesticated dog (canis familiaris) or domesticated cat
  (felis catus or domesticus) as food, meat, custom slaughtered meat, farm
  dressed meat, meat by-product or meat food product edible by  humans  or
  animals  is hereby prohibited. A violation of this section shall subject
  the offender to 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 subject  to  a  civil
  penalty  of  up  to  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. Any civil penalties
  collected  pursuant  to  this  section  shall  be  paid  to  the  animal
  population  control  fund  established by section ninety-seven-xx of the
  state finance law.  Any  authorization  given  by  or  pursuant  to  the
  provisions of this article to handle, sell, expose for sale, exchange or
  transport   the   carcasses   of  animals,  parts  thereof,  meat,  meat
  by-products and meat food products within the state  and  any  exclusion
  from  the  application  of this article applicable to custom slaughtered
  meat or contained in section ninety-six-j or another provision  of  this
  article shall not apply to the knowing sale, exposure for sale, exchange
  or transportation of the fur, hair, skin or flesh of domesticated dog or
  domesticated  cat  as  food, meat, custom slaughtered meat, farm dressed
  meat, meat by-product or meat food product edible by humans  or  animals
  which  is  prohibited  by the provisions of this section. In the case of
  any conflict with another provision of this article, the  provisions  of
  this section shall prevail over such other provision of this article.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-J - Farmer and Custom Processors.

§ 96-j. Farmer  and custom processors. This article shall not apply to
  any bona fide farmer who butchers his own domestic animals  on  his  own
  farm  exclusively  for  use  by him and members of his household and his
  non-paying guests and employees, custom slaughterers, custom slaughtered
  meat, farm dressed meat,  custom  meat  by-products,  custom  meat  food
  products,  and  establishments  where  only  such products are prepared,
  produced,  processed  or  packaged,  provided,  however,   that   custom
  slaughtered  meat, farm dressed meat, custom meat by-products and custom
  meat food products shall be identified as such in such manner as may  be
  required by the commissioner by duly promulgated rules and regulations.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-L - Inspection Legend Required.

§ 96-l. Inspection   legend   required.  Except  as  exempted  by  the
  provisions of this article no carcasses of animals, parts thereof, meat,
  meat by-product or meat food product for  human  consumption,  shall  be
  sold, exposed for sale, exchanged or transported within the state unless
  the  same  shall  bear  an  official  inspection  legend or a meat label
  affixed pursuant to a federal inspection.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-M - Sale of Inspected Meat.

§ 96-m. Sale  of  inspected  meat.    All  carcasses of animals, parts
  thereof, meat, meat by-products,  and  meat  food  products  bearing  an
  inspection  legend  or meat label affixed after a federal inspection may
  be sold, exposed for sale, exchanged or transported at all places within
  the state, except that dressed  carcasses  of  equines  or  other  large
  domesticated  animals,  parts,  meat,  meat  by-products  and  meat food
  products thereof may be sold, exposed for sale, exchanged or transported
  only in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be enacted  by
  the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-P-2 - Mishandling and Improper Transportation of Meat, Meat By-Products and Meat Food Products.

§ 96-p-2. Mishandling   and  improper  transportation  of  meat,  meat
by-products and meat food products. (1) No  person,  firm,  association,
partnership  or  corporation  engaged  in carrying or transporting meat,
meat by-products or meat food products  shall  transport  such  products
except  in an enclosed vehicle in such a manner as to assure delivery of
the aforesaid products so that frozen products remain  frozen  and  such
other  products  do  not  rise above forty degrees Fahrenheit, provided,
however, that this section shall not apply to establishments engaging in
meat  handling  operations  at  retail  stores  and  restaurants,   when
conducted  at  any  retail  store  or  restaurant or similar retail-type
establishment for sale in normal retail quantities or  service  of  such
articles   to   consumers  at  such  establishments,  nor  to  household
consumers. This section shall not apply  to  meat  food  products  which
because  of  their  method  of  manufacture,  processing, and packaging,
require no special handling  temperatures  to  prevent  adulteration  or
unwholesomeness including, but not limited to, commercially sterile meat
food products in hermetically sealed containers.
(2)  The  commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations to further
define standards for the transportation of  meat,  meat  by-products  or
meat  food  products  to  further  ensure  that they are delivered in an
unadulterated and wholesome condition.
(3) A violation of the provisions of this section shall be a violation
as defined in subdivision three of section 10.00 of the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-Q - Unmarked and Unlabeled Meat.

§ 96-q. Unmarked  and  unlabeled  meat.    Inasmuch  as  it  cannot be
  determined for certain by  any  presently  known  method  of  inspection
  whether meat is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit or
  unsafe  for  food  unless  the organs and other tissues of an animal are
  inspected when slaughtered, or whether meat, meat  by-products  or  meat
  food  products are unsound, unhealthful and unwholesome or contain dyes,
  chemicals, preservatives  or  ingredients  which  render  such  products
  adulterated  unless  inspected where processed, and as uninspected meat,
  meat by-products and meat food products may be unfit or unsafe for human
  consumption, the commissioner shall seize and destroy for food  purposes
  any  meat,  meat  by-product  or meat food product that does not bear an
  official inspection legend affixed pursuant  to  a  federal  inspection;
  provided  nothing  herein  shall  affect  the  possession  by  a  custom
  slaughterer or custom processor, or the possession and transportation by
  the owner of custom slaughtered meat or farm dressed meat when meats are
  identified as  such  in  accordance  with  rules  and  regulations  duly
  promulgated  pursuant  to  the  federal meat inspection act and all acts
  amendatory thereof; and provided, further, nothing herein  shall  affect
  the  transportation  of  dead  animals,  properly  identified, condemned
  carcasses and parts  of  carcasses,  and  other  condemned  or  inedible
  product or material to rendering plants.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-R - Unlawful Possession of Inspection Legend and Meat Label.

§ 96-r. Unlawful  possession  of inspection legend and meat label.  It
  shall be unlawful for any person to possess, keep, or use an  inspection
  legend  or  meat  label  or  to  possess, keep or use any stamp or label
  simulating the  inspection  legend  and  meat  label  unless  authorized
  pursuant to the federal meat inspection act.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-S - Rules and Regulations.

§ 96-s. Rules  and regulations.  The commissioner is hereby authorized
  to enact, amend and repeal rules and regulations necessary to carry  out
  and give full force and effect to the provisions of this article.
The   commissioner   is   hereby   authorized  to  adopt,  insofar  as
  appropriate, the regulations, from time to time promulgated  under  such
  federal  act or acts, and to change or amend the regulations promulgated
  under this chapter so as to conform, insofar as  appropriate,  to  those
  promulgated   under  the  federal  meat  inspection  act  and  all  acts
  amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, particularly the wholesome
  meat act.
The commissioner shall hold  a  public  hearing  upon  a  proposal  to
  promulgate  any new or amended regulations under this article, except in
  the case of a proposal to adopt applicable regulations promulgated under
  the federal act or acts.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-T - Enforcement.

§ 96-t. Enforcement.  1. The commissioner may institute such action at
  law  or in equity as may appear necessary to enforce compliance with any
  provision of this article and the  rules  and  regulations  adopted  and
  promulgated hereunder and, in addition to any other remedy under article
  three  of  this chapter or otherwise, may apply for relief by injunction
  if necessary to protect the public interest without being  compelled  to
  allege  or  prove  that  an  adequate remedy at law does not exist. Such
  application may be made to the supreme court in any county  pursuant  to
  the  civil  practice law and rules or to the supreme court in any county
  of the third judicial district.
2. Whenever the commissioner is authorized or  directed  hereunder  to
  render unfit for food or seize and destroy any meat, meat by-product, or
  meat  food  product,  the destruction and disposition of such meat, meat
  by-product, or meat food product, as  well  as  any  necessary  storage,
  handling   or  other  incidentals,  shall  be  the  responsibility  both
  financially and otherwise, of the owner of the  establishment  or  other
  person  having  custody  or possession of such meat, meat by-product, or
  meat  food  product;  provided,  however,  that  such   destruction   or
  disposition   shall   be  carried  out  only  under  the  direction  and
  supervision of the commissioner.  Nothing in this subdivision  shall  be
  construed as preventing the commissioner from destroying or disposing of
  meat,  meat  by-products,  or  meat  food  products found to be unfit or
  unsafe for use as food where such action is necessary for the protection
  of public health.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-B - Sale of Meat › 96-W - Severability.

§ 96-w. Severability.   If  any  provision  of  this  article  or  the
  application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such
  invalidity shall not affect other  provisions  or  applications  of  the
  article  which  can  be  given  effect  without the invalid provision or
  application, and to this end the provisions of this article are declared
  to be severable.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-X - Declaration of Policy and Purposes.

§ 96-x. Declaration  of  policy and purposes.  The use as food of meat
  or meat  products  derived  from  dead,  dying,  disabled,  diseased  or
  condemned  animals endangers the health and welfare of the people of the
  state. The powers of  seizure,  quarantine  and  condemnation  held  and
  exercised  by  the  department  tend  to  suppress but do not constitute
  adequate controls to prevent such adulterated and unfit  meat  and  meat
  products  from being sold for consumption. It is hereby declared to be a
  matter of legislative determination that regulation and  supervision  of
  those who deal in, handle, transport, process or dispose of such animals
  and  the  products therefrom are needed in the public interest, and that
  in the exercise of the police power  such  persons  be  required  to  be
  licensed  before engaging in such activities and that such activities be
  regulated and supervised. The general purpose  of  this  article  is  to
  protect  the  public  health, safety and welfare by controlling the use,
  movement  and  disposition  of  dead,  dying,  disabled,  diseased,   or
  condemned animals, and the meat and meat products derived therefrom.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Y - Definitions.

§ 96-y. Definitions.   As  used  in  this  article,  unless  otherwise
expressly stated, or unless the  context  or  subject  matter  otherwise
requires:
(1)  "Disposal  plant"  means  the  premises  or  place  where bodies,
carcasses or portions thereof of  dead,  dying,  diseased,  disabled  or
condemned animals or inedible meat are received and held for the purpose
of  burning,  processing  or rendering or otherwise obtaining the hides,
skins, grease or meat therefrom in any manner whatsoever.
(2) "Processing" means  any  method  whereby  meat  or  meat  products
derived  from  animals  are cut, boned, mixed, blended, canned, cured or
otherwise prepared for purposes other than for human consumption.
(3) "Inedible meat" means meat and meat products  derived  from  dead,
dying,  disabled,  diseased  or  condemned  animals,  and  meat  or meat
products, regardless of origin, which are adulterated within the meaning
of section two hundred of this chapter.
(4) "Rendering" means the method by which animal bodies, carcasses  or
portions  thereof,  and meat or meat product are melted down and the fat
or grease extracted therefrom.
(5) "Decharacterization" means the uniform application  of  sufficient
quantities  of  dye,  charcoal,  malodorous fish oil, acid, or any other
agent approved by the commissioner upon  and  into  the  freely  slashed
flesh  of meat or meat product not being rendered so as to unequivocally
preclude its use for human food.
(6) "Transportation service" means the operation within the state of a
vehicle or vehicles by a person not  otherwise  licensed  to  operate  a
disposal  plant,  for  the  purpose of transporting for hire unprocessed
animal bodies, carcasses or portions thereof, and meat or meat  products
which are not intended for eventual use for human consumption.
(7)  "Vehicle" means a conveyance or any piece of equipment whatsoever
used in transportation service.
(8) "Animal" means any animal, domestic or feral, or any  domesticated
bird.
(9)  "Dead  animal"  means  an  animal that has died otherwise than by
slaughter.
(10) "Meat" means the entire bodies, carcasses or portions thereof  of
animals or birds.
(11)  "Meat product" means any product which is made or derived wholly
or in part from the body, carcass or  portions  thereof  of  animals  or
birds.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z - Exemptions.

§ 96-z. Exemptions.  This  article  shall not apply to disposal plants
  operated under  federal  inspection  or  under  inspection  pursuant  to
  article  five-B  of  this  chapter;  to  any person, who, in the regular
  course of a refuse collection business, gathers up and disposes  of  the
  bodies  of  dead  fowls,  cats,  dogs  or other small animals; or to any
  person, including but not limited  to  members  of  state  or  municipal
  highway  maintenance  crews or state or municipal officials or employees
  who in the pursuit of their duties, are charged with or responsible  for
  the  protection  of  the health, safety and welfare of the people of the
  state.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-2 - Application.

§ 96-z-2. Application. Application for a license to operate a disposal
  plant  or transportation service shall be made upon a form prescribed by
  the commissioner. The applicant shall satisfy the commissioner of his or
  her character and that he or she has adequate  physical  facilities  for
  the  operation  of  a  disposal  plant  or transportation service. If so
  satisfied,  the  commissioner   shall   issue   to   the   applicant   a
  non-transferable  license  which  will  expire  on  the thirtieth day of
  September of  the  next  even  numbered  year  following  its  issuance.
  Application  for renewal of such license for a period of two years shall
  be made biennially upon  a  form  prescribed  by  the  commissioner  and
  submitted  no  later  than  thirty  days  prior to the expiration of the
  existing license.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-3 - Granting, Suspending or Revoking Licenses.

§ 96-z-3. Granting,  suspending or revoking licenses. The commissioner
  may decline to grant a license  or  may  suspend  or  revoke  a  license
  already  granted,  after written notice to the applicant or licensee and
  an opportunity to be heard, when (1) any statement in the application or
  upon which it was  issued  is  or  was  false  or  misleading,  (2)  the
  applicant or licensee does not have adequate physical facilities for the
  operation  of a disposal plant or transportation service, (3) facilities
  are not maintained in a manner and as required by rules and  regulations
  duly  promulgated  by  the  commissioner,  (4)  applicant,  an  officer,
  director, partner, or holder of ten per centum or  more  of  the  voting
  stock  of  an applicant has been convicted of a felony by a court of the
  United States or any state  or  territory  thereof,  without  subsequent
  pardon  by  the  governor or other appropriate authority of the state or
  jurisdiction in which such conviction occurred,  or  the  receipt  of  a
  certificate of relief from disabilities or a certificate of good conduct
  pursuant  to  article  twenty-three  of  the  correction  law,  (5) when
  applicant or licensee is a  partnership  or  corporation,  any  partner,
  officer,  director, holder or owner of ten percent or more of the stock,
  has previously been responsible, in whole or in part,  for  any  act  on
  account  of which a license may be denied, suspended or revoked pursuant
  to the provisions of this article, or (6) the applicant or licensee  has
  failed  to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or rules or
  regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-4 - Review.

§ 96-z-4. Review.  The action of the commissioner in refusing to grant
  a license, or in suspending or revoking a license may be reviewed in the
  manner  provided  by article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and
  rules, and the decision of the commissioner shall be final unless within
  thirty days from this date  of  service  thereof  on  the  applicant  or
  licensee a proceeding is instituted to review such action.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-5 - Rules and Regulations.

§ 96-z-5. Rules   and   regulations.     The  commissioner  is  hereby
  authorized, after public hearing, to adopt and promulgate such rules and
  regulations to supplement and give full effect to the provision of  this
  article as he may deem necessary.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-6 - Violations; Remedies.

§ 96-z-6. Violations;  remedies.   The commissioner may institute such
  action at law or in equity as may appear necessary to enforce compliance
  with any provisions of this article or  of  any  rules  and  regulations
  promulgated  thereunder,  and  in  addition  to  any  other remedy under
  article three  of  this  chapter  or  otherwise,  apply  for  relief  by
  injunction  if  necessary  to  protect the public interest without being
  compelled to allege or prove that an adequate remedy  at  law  does  not
  exist. Such application may be made to the supreme court in any district
  or  county  as  provided  in the civil practice law and rules, or to the
  supreme court in the third judicial district.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-7 - Labeling.

§ 96-z-7. Labeling.    All products except hides, tallow, meat meal or
  bone meal, leaving a  disposal  plant  shall  be  packed  in  containers
  approved by the commissioner, and the containers shall be clearly marked
  or  stamped with the legend "unfit for human consumption" in such manner
  as prescribed by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-8 - Access to Premises; Records.

§ 96-z-8. Access  to  premises; records.  The commissioner may inspect
  as often as he deems necessary, each disposal plant or vehicle  licensed
  under  the  provisions  of  this article. For the purpose of making such
  inspection, the commissioner and his authorized agents shall  have  free
  access  to  all  disposal  plants licensed hereunder and to all premises
  where vehicles used in a transportation service are  located.  Licensees
  shall  maintain  such records as the commissioner may require pertaining
  to the origin, movement, storage, distribution or other  disposition  of
  inedible  meat  and  such  records  shall  be  open to inspection by the
  commissioner or his authorized agents at any time during normal  working
  hours.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-9 - Criminal Slaughter, Processing or Possession of Inedible Meat.

§ 96-z-9. Criminal  slaughter,  processing  or  possession of inedible
  meat. A person is guilty of criminal slaughter, processing or possession
  of inedible meat when he knowingly and unlawfully  (a)  slaughters,  for
  the  purpose of human consumption, any animal from which such meat would
  be derived, (b) adds, mixes or otherwise combines  any  such  meat  with
  food intended for human consumption, or bones, cuts, grinds or otherwise
  processes  such  meat  for  the  purpose  of  human  consumption, or (c)
  possesses such meat with intent to sell the meat for human  consumption.
  Criminal  slaughter,  processing  or possession of an inedible meat is a
  class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-10 - Criminal Sale of Inedible Meat.

§ 96-z-10. Criminal  sale  of  inedible  meat.   A person is guilty of
  criminal sale of inedible meat when he knowingly  and  unlawfully  sells
  such  meat  for  the  purpose  of  human  consumption.  Criminal sale of
  inedible meat is a class E felony.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-11 - Criminal Transporting of Inedible Meat.

§ 96-z-11. Criminal transporting of inedible meat.  A person is guilty
  of  criminal  transporting  of  inedible  meat  when  he  knowingly  and
  unlawfully transports  such  meat  for  human  consumption  or  when  he
  knowingly and unlawfully transports inedible meat which is not marked or
  stamped  with  the  legend "unfit for human consumption", as required by
  the commissioner. Criminal transporting of inedible meat is  a  class  E
  felony.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants › 96-Z-12 - Unlawful Decharacterization and Labeling of Inedible Meat.

§ 96-z-12. Unlawful  decharacterization and labeling of inedible meat.
  A person is  guilty  of  unlawful  decharacterization  and  labeling  of
  inedible  meat  when he knowingly and unlawfully fails to decharacterize
  and label such meat in a manner prescribed by the commissioner. Unlawful
  decharacterization  and  labeling  of  inedible  meat  is  a   class   A
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-D - Sale of Poultry and Poultry Products › 96-Z-21 - Definitions.

§ 96-z-21. Definitions.    As  used  in this article, unless otherwise
  expressly stated, or unless the  content  or  subject  matter  otherwise
  requires:
1. "Person" means any person, firm, corporation, or association.
2. "Adulterated" means the same as set forth in section two hundred of
  this chapter.
3. "Poultry" means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead.
4.  "Poultry  product"  means any poultry carcass, or part thereof; or
  any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass  or
  part  thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only
  in a relative small portion or historically have not been considered  by
  consumers  as  products  of  the  poultry  food  industry, and which are
  exempted by the commissioner from definition as a poultry product  under
  such  conditions  as  the  commissioner may prescribe to assure that the
  poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and  that  such
  products are not represented as poultry products.
5.  "Federal  inspection"  means  the  poultry  and  poultry  products
  inspection maintained by the United States department of agriculture.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-D - Sale of Poultry and Poultry Products › 96-Z-28 - Inspection Legend Required.

§ 96-z-28. Inspection  legend  required.  Except  as  exempted  by the
  provisions of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, no poultry or
  poultry product for human consumption, shall be sold, exposed for  sale,
  exchanged  or transported within the state unless the same shall bear an
  official inspection mark affixed pursuant to a federal inspection.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-D - Sale of Poultry and Poultry Products › 96-Z-29-A - Mishandling and Improper Transportation of Poultry Products.

§ 96-z-29-a. Mishandling   and   improper  transportation  of  poultry
products. (1) No person, firm, association, partnership, or  corporation
engaged  in  carrying  or  transporting poultry products shall transport
such poultry products except in an enclosed vehicle in such a manner  as
to  assure  delivery  of  the aforesaid products so that frozen products
remain frozen and such other products do not rise  above  forty  degrees
Fahrenheit,  provided, however, that this section shall not apply to (a)
household consumers; (b) retail dealers with respect to poultry products
sold directly to  consumers  in  retail  stores;  (c)  poultry  products
derived  from  either  the slaughter by any person of poultry of his own
raising, or the custom slaughter by another person of poultry  delivered
by  the owner thereof for such slaughter, when such poultry products are
used exclusively by such owner and members  of  his  household  and  his
non-paying guests and employees. This section shall not apply to poultry
products  which  because of their method of manufacture, processing, and
packaging,  require  no  special  handling   temperatures   to   prevent
adulteration   or   unwholesomeness   including,  but  not  limited  to,
commercially sterile poultry products in hermetically sealed containers.
(2) The commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations  to  further
define  standards  for the transportation of poultry products to further
ensure that  they  are  delivered  in  an  unadulterated  and  wholesome
condition.
(3) A violation of the provisions of this section shall be a violation
as defined in subdivision three of section 10.00 of the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 5-D - Sale of Poultry and Poultry Products › 96-Z-32 - Uninspected Poultry and Poultry Products.

§ 96-z-32. Uninspected poultry and poultry products.  The commissioner
  shall seize and destroy for food purposes any poultry or poultry product
  subject to federal inspection that does not bear the official inspection
  legend affixed pursuant to federal inspection.