Assembly Bill A1673

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Imposes additional penalties upon persons convicted of animal abuse

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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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2015-A1673 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S814
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง353, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10365
2011-2012: A1567
2013-2014: A4618
2017-2018: S4039, S4043
2019-2020: S384
2021-2022: S230
2023-2024: S293

2015-A1673 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires unsealing of court records of youthful offenders convicted of animal abuse offense; provides that such persons undergo a psychiatric evaluation and treatment where necessary.

2015-A1673 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1673

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. TEDISCO, KATZ, CORWIN, McDONOUGH, McLAUGHLIN,
  GIGLIO, TENNEY, CROUCH, MILLER, RIVERA,  JOHNS,  SKARTADOS  --  Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, BARCLAY, BROOK-KRASNY, BUTLER, FINCH,
  KOLB, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture

AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to imposing
  additional penalties for animal abuse

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 353 of the agriculture and markets law, as  amended
by  chapter 458 of the laws of 1985 and the opening paragraph as amended
by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  S 353. Overdriving, torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide
proper sustenance. 1. A person who overdrives[,] OR 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  caus-
es,  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 wilful-
ly sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any SUCH
act  of  cruelty  to any animal, or any SUCH act tending to produce such
cruelty, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor and for  purposes  of  para-
graph (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. THE COURT, FOR A PERSON WHO TORTURES OR CRUELLY BEATS OR UNJUSTIFI-
ABLY  INJURES,  MAIMS,  MUTILATES  OR  KILLS ANY ANIMAL, WHETHER WILD OR
TAME, AND WHETHER BELONGING  TO  HIMSELF  OR  ANOTHER,  OR  WHO  CAUSES,
PROCURES  OR  PERMITS  ANY  ANIMAL  TO  BE  TORTURED, CRUELLY BEATEN, OR
UNJUSTIFIABLY INJURED, MAIMED, MUTILATED OR KILLED SHALL, IN ADDITION TO
ANY OTHER PENALTY OTHERWISE IMPOSED BY  LAW  FOR  A  VIOLATION  OF  THIS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02596-01-5
              

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