N.Y. Public Health Law § 504: Laboratories; scientific tests on living animals; rules; approval

§ 504. Laboratories; scientific tests on living animals; rules;

approval. 1. The commissioner is authorized to designate approved

laboratories or institutions wherein properly conducted scientific

tests, experiments or investigations, involving the use of living

animals, may be performed or conducted.

2. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate rules under which such

approvals shall be granted, and shall cause such rules to be published,

and copies thereof shall be conspicuously posted in each such laboratory

or institution.

(b) Such rules of the commissioner shall include requirements that all

animals shall be kindly and humanely treated, properly fed and suitably

housed, and that commensurate with experimental needs and with the

physiologic function under study, all tests, experiments and

investigations involving pain shall be performed under adequate

anesthesia.

3. The commissioner or his duly authorized representative shall

inspect such laboratories or institutions to insure compliance with the

rules and standards promulgated by him.

4. (a) The approval of a laboratory or institution by the commissioner

for the purposes herein set forth shall be limited to a period not

exceeding one year but may be renewed from year to year upon proper

application to the commissioner.

(b) Each such approval may be revoked at any time for failure to

comply with the rules promulgated by the commissioner.

5. The performance of animal experimentation without approval by the

commissioner as herein provided shall constitute a misdemeanor.