Bill Text: NY A04541 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle with an animal in the front seat or an unrestrained animal in the vehicle.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - enacting clause stricken [A04541 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A04541-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4541
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 6, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. CASTRO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
the operation of a motor vehicle with an animal in the front seat or
an unrestrained animal in the vehicle
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1229-e to read as follows:
3 S 1229-E. OPERATION OF VEHICLES WITH ANIMALS. 1. NO PERSON SHALL OPER-
4 ATE A MOTOR VEHICLE IN THIS STATE WITH AN ANIMAL IN THE FRONT SEAT.
5 2. (A) NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE IN THIS STATE WITH AN
6 ANIMAL IN THE VEHICLE UNLESS SUCH ANIMAL IS RESTRAINED.
7 (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A RESTRAINED ANIMAL MEANS AN
8 ANIMAL SECURED IN A HARNESS OR VEHICLE SEAT, CONFINED IN A BOX, OR HARD
9 OR SOFT SIDED TRAVEL CRATE.
10 3. ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OR TWO OF
11 THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A CIVIL FINE OF UP TO FIFTY DOLLARS.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06353-02-3
