Bill Text: NY S01742 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalty of knowingly violating the provisions relating to the appropriate shelter for dogs from a violation to a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S01742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01742-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1742

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas-
          ing the penalty of knowingly violating the provisions relating to  the
          appropriate shelter for dogs

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of  section  353-b  of  the
     2  agriculture  and  markets  law,  as  added by chapter 594 of the laws of
     3  2003, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Any person who owns or has custody or control of  a  dog  that  is
     5  left  outdoors  shall  provide it with shelter appropriate to its breed,
     6  physical condition and the climate. Any person  who  knowingly  violates
     7  the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a [violation, punisha-
     8  ble  by  a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred
     9  dollars for a first offense, and a fine of not  less  than  one  hundred
    10  dollars  nor more than two hundred fifty dollars for a second and subse-
    11  quent offenses] misdemeanor, punishable by  imprisonment  for  not  more
    12  than  one year, or by a fine not less than five hundred dollars nor more
    13  than one thousand dollars, or by both. Beginning seventy-two hours after
    14  a charge of violating this section, each day that a defendant  fails  to
    15  correct  the  deficiencies in the dog shelter for a dog that [he or she]
    16  such person owns or that is in [his or her]  such  person's  custody  or
    17  control  and  that  is  left outdoors, so as to bring it into compliance
    18  with the provisions of this section shall constitute a separate offense.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05302-01-5