Bill Text: NY S01484 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the maximum fine for the misdemeanor of abandonment of animals to $2,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-02 - referred to agriculture [S01484 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01484-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1484--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Agriculture  --
         committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas-
         ing the punishment for the abandonment of animals
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 355 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended
    2  by chapter 458 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 355. Abandonment of animals. A person being the owner or  possessor,
    4  or  having  charge or custody of an animal, who abandons such animal, or
    5  leaves it to die in a street, road or public place, or who  allows  such
    6  animal, if it [become] BECOMES disabled, to lie in a public street, road
    7  or  public  place  more than three hours after he OR SHE receives notice
    8  that it is left disabled, is guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by
    9  imprisonment for not more than [one year] TWO YEARS, or by a fine of not
   10  more than [one] TWO thousand dollars, or by both.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   12  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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