Bill Text: NY S01743 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain peace officers to issue an appearance ticket, summon or arrest and bring before the appropriate court any person offending the provisions of article 26 of the agriculture and markets law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S01743 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01743-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1743

                               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  the
          powers of peace officers

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

     1    Section 1. Section 371 of the agriculture and markets law, as  amended
     2  by chapter 573 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 371. Powers  of peace officers. A constable or police officer [must]
     4  shall, and any agent or officer of any duly incorporated society for the
     5  prevention of cruelty to animals [may] shall issue an appearance  ticket
     6  pursuant  to  section  150.20  of  the criminal procedure law, summon or
     7  arrest, and bring before a court or magistrate having jurisdiction,  any
     8  person  offending against any of the provisions of this article [twenty-
     9  six of the agriculture and markets law].  Any officer or agent of any of
    10  [said] such societies [may] shall  lawfully  interfere  to  prevent  the
    11  perpetration  of  any act of cruelty upon any animal in [his] such offi-
    12  cer's or agent's presence. Any of  [said]  such  societies  [may]  shall
    13  prefer  a  complaint  before  any  court,  tribunal or magistrate having
    14  jurisdiction, for the violation of any  law  relating  to  or  affecting
    15  animals  and [may] shall aid in presenting the law and facts before such
    16  court, tribunal or magistrate in any proceeding taken.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05314-01-5