N.Y. Lost and Strayed Animals 115/1894 § 4: No title

§ 4. (1) With each license issued or renewed under this act, the

department of health and mental hygiene of such city shall supply the

applicant with a certificate of license or renewal stating the name and

address of the owner of the dog and the number of such license or

renewal.

(2) Every dog licensed under this act shall, at all times, have a

collar about its neck with a tag made of metal or other durable material

attached thereto, bearing the number of the license. Such tag shall be

supplied to the owner by such department. Such department shall provide

notice with each such tag that anyone who shall use a license tag on a

dog for which it was not issued shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor

as provided in section nine of this act. Nothing in this act shall

prevent such department from issuing specialty tags which, for an

additional cost set by local law, owners may purchase in lieu of the

standard tags issued pursuant to this section. The commissioner of

health and mental hygiene of such city may issue rules requiring that

dogs licensed under this act shall have attached to such collar a tag

indicating that a rabies vaccination has been administered.

(3) Such department may issue replacements for tags that are lost and

may require reasonable proof of loss of the original and payment of a

sum, set by local law, equal to the cost of replacement.

(4) On or about the thirtieth day before the end of the term for which

a license issued or renewed under this act shall be valid, such

department shall notify the licensee by mail or other means, using the

contact information provided pursuant to subdivision one of section two

of this act, of the date by which renewal is required, the manner in

which the licensee may apply for renewal, the fees associated with

on-time and late renewal respectively, and the penalties to which the

licensee may be subject under section three of this act in the event he

or she fails to renew such license.