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Senate Bill S4681
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S4681 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Agriculture
- Law Section:
- Agriculture and Markets Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §353, Ag & Mkts L
- Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
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S4963, S1684
2011-S4681 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4681 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increasing the penalty for multiple convictions of torturing or failing to provide sustenance to an animal PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To increase the penalty for the crime of animal cruelty to a class E felony. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section one amends the opening paragraph of §353 of the Agriculture & Markets Law, as amended by Chapter 523 of the Laws of 2005, by adding language that would make any violation of this section within five years from the date of a prior conviction of any violation of this section a class E felony, punishable pursuant to the provisions of §353-a of this Article. Section two defines the effective date as the first of November following the enactment date. JUSTIFICATION: Preventing those who abuse animals from committing similar acts in the future is one of the purposes of New York's animal cruelty laws. Raising the penalty to a felony for subsequent
2011-S4681 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4681 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 14, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FLANAGAN -- 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 increas- ing the penalty for multiple convictions of torturing or failing to provide sustenance to an animal 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 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; EXCEPT THAT ANY VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION WITHIN FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF A PRIOR CONVICTION OF ANY VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION, SHALL BE A CLASS E FELONY, PUNISHABLE PURSU- ANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE-A OF THIS ARTICLE. S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10816-01-1
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