Assembly Bill A6925

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Makes it unlawful to force feed birds under certain circumstances

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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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2017-A6925 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1559
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3867
2013-2014: S456
2015-2016: S898

2017-A6925 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes it unlawful to force feed birds, by hand or machine, for the purpose of fatty enlargement of such bird's liver.

2017-A6925 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6925
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Agriculture
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to making
   it unlawful to force feed birds under certain circumstances
 
   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, HERSELF or  to  another,
 or  deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink, OR FORCE
 FEEDS A BIRD, BY HAND OR MACHINE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF  FATTY  ENLARGEMENT
 OF  SUCH  BIRD'S LIVER, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such suste-
 nance or drink, or causes, procures or permits any animal  to  be  over-
 driven,  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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD00621-01-7

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