S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1484--B
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 -- 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, or by a fine of not more than
10 [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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