Bill Text: NY S05445 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes reckless operation of a motor vehicle resulting in the death or serious injury of a companion animal in the definition of aggravated animal cruelty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S05445 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05445-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5445 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 5, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- 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 includ- ing reckless operation of a motor vehicle resulting in the death or serious injury of a companion animal as aggravated animal cruelty 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: (a) intentionally kills or intentionally 6 causes serious physical injury to a companion animal with aggravated 7 cruelty. For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall mean 8 conduct which: (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii) 9 is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner; or 10 (b) causes the death or causes serious physical injury to a companion 11 animal while recklessly operating a motor vehicle. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10049-01-1
