Assembly Bill A10661

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to orders of protection with respect to companion animals

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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-A10661 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7394
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §§352.3, 446, 551, 656, 759, 842 & 1056, Fam Ct Act; amd §§530.12 & 530.13, CP L; amd §§240 & 252, Dom Rel L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A668, S2167
2019-2020: A767, S1251
2021-2022: A510, S3039
2023-2024: A39, S5309

2015-A10661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to orders of protection with respect to companion animals; provides further protection for pets by authorizing the court to order a party to either relinquish a pet or to refrain from any contact with a pet.

2015-A10661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10661

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 10, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rosenthal)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the family court act, the criminal procedure law and the
  domestic relations law, in relation to an  order  of  protection  with
  respect to companion animals

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 352.3 of the family court act,  as
amended  by  chapter  532  of  the  laws  of 2008, is amended to read as
follows:
  (1) Upon the issuance of an order pursuant to  section  315.3  or  the
entry  of an order of disposition pursuant to section 352.2, a court may
enter an order of protection  against  any  respondent  for  good  cause
shown. The order may require that the respondent: (a) stay away from the
home,  school,  business  or  place  of employment of the victims of the
alleged offense; or (b) refrain from harassing, intimidating,  threaten-
ing  or  otherwise interfering with the victim or victims of the alleged
offense and such members of the family or household of  such  victim  or
victims  as  shall  be specifically named by the court in such order; or
(c) refrain from intentionally injuring or killing,  without  justifica-
tion,  any companion animal the respondent knows to be owned, possessed,
leased, kept or held by [the person protected by the order] EITHER PARTY
or a minor child residing in [such person's] EITHER PARTY'S household OR
A DESIGNATED PARTY AS DETERMINED BY THE COURT; OR (D) RELINQUISH CUSTODY
OF ANY COMPANION ANIMAL OWNED, POSSESSED, LEASED, KEPT OR HELD BY EITHER
PARTY OR A MINOR CHILD RESIDING IN THE HOUSEHOLD TO THE PETITIONER OR  A
DESIGNATED  PARTY  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE COURT; OR (E) TO REFRAIN FROM
HAVING CONTACT WITH ANY COMPANION ANIMAL OWNED, POSSESSED, LEASED,  KEPT
OR HELD BY WITHER PARTY OR A MINOR CHILD RESIDING IN THE HOUSEHOLD OR IN
THE  CUSTODY  OF  A  DESIGNATED  PARTY PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (D) OF THIS
SUBDIVISION. "Companion animal", as used in this subdivision, shall have
the same meaning as in subdivision five of section three  hundred  fifty
of the agriculture and markets law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13205-05-6

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