Bill Text: NY S05017 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when such person intentionally kills or causes serious physical injury to an animal with aggravated cruelty; removes qualification that animal need be a companion animal.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S05017 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S05017-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5017
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 2, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- 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 aggra-
vated cruelty to animals
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when, with no
5 justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or intentionally
6 causes serious physical injury to [a companion] AN animal with aggra-
7 vated cruelty. For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall
8 mean conduct which: (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or
9 (ii) is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic
10 manner.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01970-01-1
