Senate Bill S841

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Makes the failure to provide food, water or appropriate shelter to a companion animal left outside a felony

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  • 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-S841 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8089
Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§353, 353-b & 356, add §353-g, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6628, A8820
2015-2016: S2949, A1738
2019-2020: S387, A1157
2021-2022: S227, A2347
2023-2024: S298

2017-S841 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes the failure to provide food, water or appropriate shelter to a companion animal (dogs and cats) left outside a felony punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

2017-S841 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S841 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    841
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. TEDISCO, 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  the
   provision of food, water and appropriate shelter for companion animals
   left outdoors

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 353 of the agriculture and
 markets law, as amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   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, OTHER THAN A COMPANION ANIMAL, of necessary  suste-
 nance,  food  or drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such suste-
 nance or drink, or causes, procures or permits any animal  to  be  over-
 driven,  overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured,
 maimed, mutilated or killed, or, BEING ANY ANIMAL OTHER THAN A COMPANION
 ANIMAL, 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,  is
 guilty  of  a  class  A misdemeanor 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.
   §  2.    Section 353-b of the agriculture and markets law, as added by
 chapter 594 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
   §  353-b.  Appropriate  shelter  for  [dogs]  COMPANION  ANIMALS  left
 outdoors. 1. For purposes of this section:
   (a)  "Physical condition" shall include any special medical needs of a
 dog due to disease, illness, injury, age or breed about which the  owner
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06411-01-7
              

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