Bill Text: NY A00944 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Criminalizes knowingly causing a minor to attend a place where exhibition of animal fighting is being conducted.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - reported referred to codes [A00944 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A00944-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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944
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
prohibition of animal fighting
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 351 of the agriculture and markets
2 law, as added by chapter 150 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. (a) Any person who engages in conduct specified in paragraph (b) OR
5 (C) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by imprisonment
6 for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed one
7 thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
8 (b) The knowing presence as a spectator having paid an admission fee
9 or having made a wager at any place where an exhibition of animal fight-
10 ing is being conducted; OR
11 (C) KNOWINGLY CAUSES A MINOR TO ATTEND AN EXHIBITION OF ANIMAL FIGHT-
12 ING. THE TERM "MINOR" MEANS A PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN YEARS
13 OLD.
14 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04300-01-5
