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Assembly Bill A9275A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Criminalizes knowingly causing a minor to attend a place where exhibition of animal fighting is being conducted

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2013-A9275 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7775
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §351, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A944, S1795
2017-2018: A5048, S1432
2019-2020: A955
2021-2022: A1816
2023-2024: A444
2025-2026: A897

2013-A9275 - Summary

Criminalizes knowingly causing a minor to attend a place where exhibition of animal fighting is being conducted.

2013-A9275 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9275

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 7, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Agriculture

AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
  prohibition of animal fighting

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 351 of the agriculture and markets
law is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
  (F) KNOWINGLY CAUSES A MINOR TO ATTEND ANY PLACE WHERE  AN  EXHIBITION
OF  ANIMAL  FIGHTING IS BEING CONDUCTED. THE TERM "MINOR" MEANS A PERSON
UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.








 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14311-02-4

2013-A9275A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7775
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §351, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A944, S1795
2017-2018: A5048, S1432
2019-2020: A955
2021-2022: A1816
2023-2024: A444
2025-2026: A897

2013-A9275A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Criminalizes knowingly causing a minor to attend a place where exhibition of animal fighting is being conducted.

2013-A9275A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 9275--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 7, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee  on  Agriculture  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
  prohibition of animal fighting

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 351 of the agriculture and markets
law,  as added by chapter 150 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
follows:
  4. (a) Any person who engages in conduct specified in paragraph (b) OR
(C) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by  imprisonment
for  a  period  not  to  exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed one
thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
  (b) The knowing presence as a spectator having paid an  admission  fee
or having made a wager at any place where an exhibition of animal fight-
ing is being conducted; OR
  (C)  KNOWINGLY CAUSES A MINOR TO ATTEND AN EXHIBITION OF ANIMAL FIGHT-
ING.  THE TERM "MINOR" MEANS A PERSON UNDER THE  AGE  OF  SIXTEEN  YEARS
OLD.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14311-03-4

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