Section 354. Sale of baby chicks and baby rabbits  


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  • 1. No person shall sell,
      offer for sale, barter or give away living  baby  chicks,  ducklings  or
      other  fowl  or  baby rabbits unless such person provides proper brooder
      facilities where appropriate for the care of such baby chicks, ducklings
      or other fowl or baby rabbits during the time they are in the possession
      of such person. For the purposes of this section, a baby rabbit shall be
      a rabbit of less than two months of age.
        2. No person shall sell, offer for sale, barter or display living baby
      chicks, ducklings or other fowl or baby rabbits which  have  been  dyed,
      colored  or  otherwise  treated  so  as  to impart to them an artificial
      color.
        2-a. No provision of subdivision two shall be interpreted  or  applied
      to prevent or restrict teachers and qualified instructors of youth under
      the guidance and supervision of the New York state cooperative extension
      service  from  using  eggs  for  non-profit educational purposes or from
      observing  fowl  hatched  from  such  eggs  for  non-profit  educational
      purposes.
        3.  No  person  shall sell, offer for sale, barter or give away living
      baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or baby rabbits under two months of
      age in any quantity less than six.
        4. A violation of the provisions of this  section  is  a  misdemeanor,
      punishable  by  imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of
      not more than five hundred dollars, or by both.