Bill Text: NY A00386 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the owner of any place or establishment where animals or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food to reimburse costs associated with capture and return or rescue and rehabilitation of escaped animals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A00386 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00386-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           386

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  requir-
          ing the owner of any place or establishment where animals or fowls are
          slaughtered  or  butchered for food to reimburse costs associated with
          capture and return or rescue and rehabilitation of escaped animals

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 96-e-1 to read as follows:
     3    § 96-e-1. Penalties for escaped animals and fowl. 1. For  purposes  of
     4  this  section:  (a)  "Escaped animal" shall mean any animal or fowl that
     5  has broken free and fled from confinement or control  by  any  place  or
     6  establishment  where  animals  or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for
     7  food and roams off the premises of such facility; and
     8    (b) "Individual engaged in  animal  rescue"  shall  mean  any  private
     9  person who brings under control any escaped animal.
    10    2. In instances where any animal or fowl has escaped from any place or
    11  establishment  where  animals  or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for
    12  food, as defined by this article and such animal is recovered by any law
    13  enforcement officer, peace officer, authorized animal  control  officer,
    14  or  individual engaged in animal rescue and delivered by such persons to
    15  a municipal animal control or rescue facility, the  owner  of  any  such
    16  place  or  establishment  shall  be  liable for the reimbursement of any
    17  costs incurred by the municipality and animal control  or  local  health
    18  department  associated  with  the capture and return of escaped animals.
    19  For each incident involving an escaped animal, a civil  penalty  of  one
    20  thousand dollars shall be assessed which shall be donated to the munici-
    21  pal  or  county shelter of the city or county where such animal escaped.
    22  In lieu of civil penalty, the owner of any place  or  establishment  may
    23  relinquish ownership of an escaped animal.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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