Senate Bill S6219

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for an increase in criminal penalties for acts of cruelty to animals

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S6219 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A239
Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง353 & 353-a, Ag & Mkts L

2009-S6219 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for an increase in criminal penalties for acts of cruelty to animals making cruelty a class A misdemeanor or an E felony based on the level of intent; makes aggravated cruelty a class D felony.

2009-S6219 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6219 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6219

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            October 14, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation  to  penal-
  ties for cruelty to animals

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The two undesignated paragraphs of section 353 of the agri-
culture and markets law are designated subdivisions 1 and 2, and  subdi-
vision  1,  as amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005, is amended to
read as follows:
  1. A person who overdrives, overloads, tortures or  cruelly  beats  or
unjustifiably  injures,  maims,  mutilates  or kills any animal, whether
wild or tame, and  whether  belonging  to  himself  or  to  another,  or
deprives  any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink, or neglects
or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink, or  causes,  procures
or  permits  any  animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly
beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated or killed, or to  be
deprived  of  necessary  food  or  drink,  or who wilfully sets on foot,
instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any act of cruelty to any
animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty[,]: (A) IF  FOUND  TO
DO  SO WITH NEGLIGENCE OR RECKLESSNESS, is guilty of a class A misdemea-
nor and for purposes of paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  one  of  section
160.10  of the criminal procedure law, shall be treated as a misdemeanor
defined in the penal law; OR (B) IF FOUND TO  DO  SO  INTENTIONALLY,  IS
GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY AS DEFINED IN THE PENAL LAW.
  S  2.  Subdivision  3  of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets
law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read  as
follows:
  3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
this  offense  shall be [sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivi-
sion one of section 55.10 of the penal law provided, however,  that  any

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00545-01-9

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