New York Laws
Title 1 - General Provisions: State Laboratories; Approved Laboratories
504 - Laboratories; Scientific Tests on Living Animals; Rules; Approval.

(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.