Senate Bill S4918

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to penalties for causing the death of an animal

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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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2021-S4918 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7135
Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Add §352, amd §§353 & 353-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5117, A5507
2017-2018: S6146, A4748
2019-2020: S1116, A5734
2023-2024: S4105, A5192

2021-S4918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to penalties for causing the death of an animal; makes it a class D felony.

2021-S4918 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4918
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 18, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  penal-
   ties for causing the death of an animal
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a  new
 section 352 to read as follows:
   §  352.  CAUSING THE DEATH OF AN ANIMAL. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CAUSING
 THE DEATH OF AN ANIMAL, WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITS  A  CRIME  UNDER  SECTION
 THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OR SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE-A OF THIS
 ARTICLE,  AND  SUCH  CONDUCT RESULTS IN THE DEATH OF AN ANIMAL.  CAUSING
 THE DEATH OF AN ANIMAL IS A CLASS D FELONY.
   § 2. 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, OR mutilates [or kills] any animal, wheth-
 er  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, 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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06367-01-1

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