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Assembly Bill A4250

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the penalties for theft of a companion animal

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2025-A4250 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §366, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7772

2025-A4250 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the penalties for theft of a companion animal.

2025-A4250 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4250
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation  to  penal-
   ties for theft of a companion animal
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  The closing paragraph of section 366  of  the  agriculture
 and  markets  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 185 of the laws of 2014, is
 amended to read as follows:
   Any person violating any of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  upon
 conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding [one] FIVE
 thousand  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  not to exceed [six months] ONE
 YEAR, or by both.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD08462-01-5

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