Section 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.