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Committee advances Tang’s ordinance to ban sale and manufacture of new fur products in San Francisco
Summary
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted to send Supervisor Katie Tang’s ordinance banning the sale and manufacture of new fur products to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation. Tang said the effective date was changed to Jan. 1, 2019 and secondhand sales and restorations are excluded; the Controller and Chamber gave competing estimates of local economic impact.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on March 14 advanced an ordinance by Supervisor Katie Tang that would ban the sale and manufacture of new animal fur products in San Francisco, sending the measure to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
Tang told the committee she had revised the ordinance since the last hearing, moving the phase‑in date to Jan. 1, 2019, and clarified that the proposal would not apply to used fur products sold by secondhand shops or to restoration of existing items. "Starting 01/01/2019 in San Francisco, it would be illegal to sell, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, give, or donate a fur apparel product that's new," Tang said during her presentation.
Ted Egan of the Controller’s office presented the…
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