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Mayor de Blasio limited when horse carriages can operate in hot weather — six years after pledging to rid the city of the industry entirely.

Hizzoner signed a package of legislation addressing animal welfare issues on Monday, including a bill that would force Central Park’s employed equines to return to the stable in certain warm temperatures and another that would ban the sale of foie gras.

“If our relationship with animals isn’t right then our relationship with the earth isn’t right,” de Blasio said before signing the measures at a rec center in the West Village. “If we allow cruelty in our midst, it’s a poison, it’s a cancer that grows.”

Central Park’s carriage horses are already banned from working when temperatures hit 90 degrees or more in the summer and when it’s 18 degrees or below in the winter.

But the legislation signed by de Blasio would also prohibit them from working when temps hit 80 degrees and the “equine heat index” — the sum of the temperature and the relative humidity at any point — is at least 150.

Carriage drivers say the legislation will actually hurt horses’ well-being and health and would have increased the number of work suspensions this summer from 24 to 44.

But animal rights advocates, led by New Yorkers for Clean, Livable, and Safe Streets say the new standards will make the industry more humane. NYCLASS has pushed lawmakers for an end to the carriage industry for years, although critics of the group note its co-founder Steve Nislick, a real estate developer, has also in the past lobbied the mayor for an affordable housing plan in the neighborhood around Manhattan’s largest carriage stable.

“The mayor signing this bill indicates that he is part of NYCLASS’s systematic effort