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Intro 380- Clarifying the rights of pet owners

Postby Cranky Tenant » Sat Nov 08, 2003 11:09 am

Three City Council Members have introduced legislation "to clarify the rights of pet owners and protect seniors from eviction solely because they own a pet."

Intro 380 states that once a landlord waives the No-Pet clause, it would be waived for the duration of the tenant's occupancy. THus once the first pet is approved, each subsequent pet would be grandfathered in.

Full text of the bil is available here
Intro 380

For more information contact [email]ElinorM328@aol.com">ElinorM328@aol.com</a> , Legal Counsel for the Humane Society of New York

To suport intro 380 email the following City Council Members and ask them to please schedule a hearing on intro 380 as son as possible.


Madeline Provenzano <a href="mailto:provenzano@council.nyc.ny.us">provenzano@council.nyc.ny.us</a>
Melinda Katz <a href="mailto:katz@council.nyc.ny.us">katz@council.nyc.ny.us</a>
GIfford Miller <a href="mailto:miller@council.nyc.ny.us[/email]

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Re: Intro 380- Clarifying the rights of pet owners

Postby Cranky Tenant » Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:03 pm

I just received this follow-up on Intro 380

Dear Supporter of Intro. No. 380:

Thanks for all of your help thus far on Intro. No. 380, legislation to protect tenants and companion animals. The hearing went well but we are not there yet. The bill needs to be reintroduced in the 2004 session of the City Council at which time it will get a new number.

In the meantime, we need to keep up the pressure.

If you have a photo of your pet and you together, or even of your pet alone, please send it to Speaker Gifford Miller with a note asking him to support this legislation and to take positive action to get it out of committee and passed by the Council. (You may wish to mention that you realize the bill number will change in the near future.) Sometimes putting a face on an issue is very important and what's more convincing than photos of our dogs and cats?

If you do not have a photo, it is still important that Speaker Gifford Miller and Councilwoman Madeline Provenzano, Chair of the Housing and Buildings Committee, hear from you. Remind them of your support for this legislation and ask that they pass it out of Committee and the Council. Also contact Councilwoman Melinda Katz and thank her for sponsoring the bill and ask her to reintroduce the bill now.

Here is the contact information:

Speaker Gifford Miller: Telephone: 212-788-7210; Fax: 212-788-7207;
E-mail: [email]miller@council.nyc.ny.us">miller@council.nyc.ny.us</a>

Councilwoman Madeline Provenzano: Telephone: 718-931-6060; Fax: 718-518-8443;
E-mail: <a href="mailto:provenzano@council.nyc.ny.us">provenzano@council.nyc.ny.us</a>

Councilwoman Melinda Katz: Telephone: 212-788-6981; Fax: 212-788-7052;
E-mail: <a href="mailto:katz@council.nyc.ny.us[/email]

All councilmembers, including Speaker Gifford Miller, may be written to at City Hall, New York, NY 10007.

Thanks for your efforts!

Elinor Molbegott
Humane Society of NY
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