Assembly Bill A7950

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the penalty for the abandonment of animals

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A7950 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1741
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §355, Ag & Mkts L

2025-A7950 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the penalty for the abandonment of animals is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both.

2025-A7950 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7950
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Agriculture
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
   penalty for the abandonment of animals
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 355 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended
 by chapter 458 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   § 355. Abandonment of animals. A person being the owner or  possessor,
 or  having  charge or custody of an animal, who abandons such animal, or
 leaves it to die in a street, road or public place, or who  allows  such
 animal, if it become disabled, to lie in a public street, road or public
 place  more than three hours after [he] SUCH PERSON receives notice that
 it is left disabled, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprison-
 ment for not more than one year, or by a fine  of  not  LESS  THAN  FIVE
 HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR more than one thousand dollars, or by both.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05301-01-5

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