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senate Bill S4347
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Phil Boyle
(R) 4th Senate District
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S4347 - Details
S4347 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4347 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to aggravated cruelty to animals PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This legislation would expand the existing aggravated cruelty law to cover intentional acts of extreme cruelty to wildlife as well as companion animals. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets law, is amended to expand the existing aggravated cruelty law to cover intentional acts of extreme cruelty to wildlife as defined in section 11-0103 of the environmental conservation law. Subdivision 2 of section 353-a is amended to make it clear that nothing in the legislation would interfere with sound agricultural Practices engaged in pursuant to section 308 of the agriculture and markets law. JUSTIFICATION: This legislation will extend the coverage of the felony animal cruelty law to cover wildlife. Since the passage of the felony animal cruelty statute, there have been a number of egregious cases in which wild animals have been captured and tortured. This bill would allow these cases to be prosecuted under the felony animal cruelty statute. It is important to note that in no way would this change affect the lawful-hunting or trapping licensed by the Department of Environmental Conservation or the exercise of activities deemed to be
S4347 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4347
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 21, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- 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:
Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 353-a of the agriculture
and markets law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, are
amended to read as follows:
1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when, with no
justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or intentionally
causes serious physical injury to a companion animal OR WILDLIFE, AS
DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION 11-0103 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION LAW, OTHER THAN INSECTS, with aggravated cruelty. For
purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall mean conduct which:
(i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii) is done or
carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner.
2. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit or
interfere in any way with anyone lawfully engaged in hunting, trapping,
or fishing, as provided in article eleven of the environmental conserva-
tion law, ACTIVITIES DEEMED TO BE SOUND AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES PURSUANT
TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER, the dispatch of rabid or
diseased animals, as provided in article twenty-one of the public health
law, or the dispatch of animals posing a threat to human safety or other
animals, where such action is otherwise legally authorized, or any prop-
erly conducted scientific tests, experiments, or investigations involv-
ing the use of living animals, performed or conducted in laboratories or
institutions approved for such purposes by the commissioner of health
pursuant to section three hundred fifty-three of this article.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02314-01-3
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