File #: Int 1325-2025    Version: * Name: Prohibiting the sale of birds in pet shops.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 6/30/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale of birds in pet shops
Sponsors: Diana I. Ayala
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would prohibit the sale of birds in pet shops. Such prohibition would apply to non-poultry birds typically kept as a pet or companion animal, including, but not limited to, parrots, cockatiels, finches, parakeets, and macaws.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1325, 2. Int. No. 1325

Int. No. 1325

 

By Council Member Ayala

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale of birds in pet shops

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-1701 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 132 for the year 2024, is amended by adding a new definition of “bird” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

Bird. The term “bird” means any avian species typically kept as a pet or companion animal as defined in section 350 of article 26 of the agriculture and markets law, including, but not limited to, parrots, cockatiels, finches, parakeets, and macaws.

§ 2. Subdivision b of section 17-1702 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 132 for the year 2024, is amended to read as follows:

b.   It shall be unlawful for any pet shop to display, offer for sale, deliver, barter, auction, give away, transfer, or sell any dog, cat, rabbit,[ or] guinea pig[.], or bird.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

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