Senate Bill S4043

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Imposes additional penalties upon persons convicted of animal abuse

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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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2017-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S814
2019-2020: S384
2021-2022: S230
2023-2024: S293

2017-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires unsealing of court records of youthful offenders convicted of animal abuse offense; provides that such persons undergo a psychiatric evaluation and treatment where necessary.

2017-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4043
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  TEDISCO,  BOYLE, O'MARA -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agricul-
   ture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to imposing
   additional penalties for animal abuse
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 353 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended
 by chapter 458 of the laws of 1985 and the opening paragraph as  amended
 by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   § 353. Overdriving, torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide
 proper sustenance. 1. A person who overdrives[,] OR 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 caus-
 es, 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 wilful-
 ly sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any SUCH
 act of cruelty to any animal, or any SUCH act tending  to  produce  such
 cruelty,  is  guilty  of a class A misdemeanor and for purposes of para-
 graph (b) of subdivision one of section 160.10 of the criminal procedure
 law, shall be treated as a misdemeanor defined in the penal law.
   2. THE COURT, FOR A PERSON WHO TORTURES OR CRUELLY BEATS OR UNJUSTIFI-
 ABLY INJURES, MAIMS, MUTILATES OR KILLS  ANY  ANIMAL,  WHETHER  WILD  OR
 TAME,  AND  WHETHER  BELONGING  TO  HIMSELF  OR  ANOTHER, OR WHO CAUSES,
 PROCURES OR PERMITS ANY  ANIMAL  TO  BE  TORTURED,  CRUELLY  BEATEN,  OR
 UNJUSTIFIABLY INJURED, MAIMED, MUTILATED OR KILLED SHALL, IN ADDITION TO
 ANY  OTHER  PENALTY  OTHERWISE  IMPOSED  BY  LAW FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS
 SECTION ORDER AN IMMEDIATE AND THOROUGH PSYCHIATRIC ANALYSIS AND  EVALU-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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