N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 384: Special provisions related to the importation of dogs and cats into the state for sale, resale or adoption

§ 384. Special provisions related to the importation of dogs and cats

into the state for sale, resale or adoption. 1. Any dog or cat imported

into this state for the purposes of sale, resale or adoption shall be

held by the consignee for a period of not less than forty-eight hours.

Such dog or cat shall be vaccinated in accordance with section

twenty-one hundred forty-one of the public health law and part

sixty-five of the commissioner's rules and regulations.

2. If, during the holding period prescribed in subdivision one of this

section, any dog or cat imported into the state for sale, resale or

adoption exhibits signs of infectious, contagious, parasitic or

communicable disease, including but not limited to coughing, sneezing,

vomiting, diarrhea or bloody stool, such dog or cat must be isolated and

examined by a duly licensed attending veterinarian immediately. Any dogs

or cats that have been deemed exposed to such dog or cat must be

quarantined, if necessary, under the direction of such attending

veterinarian and held until such attending veterinarian declares them to

be free of disease.

3. Any dog or cat passing through the state to points beyond, or

brought into the state for temporary residence for purposes of

exhibition, or which enters the state for delivery to research

institutions, for fifteen days or fewer, shall be exempt from the

provisions of this section, provided that such dog or cat is at all

times properly restrained and under the immediate control of the owner

or custodian, and that such dog or cat that is in the state for more

than fifteen days is accompanied with proof of proper immunization

against rabies. It shall be an affirmative defense to the offense of

failure to have accompanied proof of proper immunization against rabies

of such dog or cat, upon the presentation of proof that such dog or cat

had in fact been immunized against rabies at the time of the infraction.

4. Violation of any provision of this section shall be a civil

offense, for which a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars and

not more than one thousand dollars for each violation shall be imposed.

Any person licensed pursuant to article twenty-six-A or twenty-six-C of

this chapter who violates any provision of this section may be subject

to denial, revocation, suspension, or refusal of renewal of his or her

license in accordance with the provisions of section four hundred

twenty-one of this chapter.