Bill Text: NY A08554 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits certain acts in rodeos; imposes penalties for the violation of such acts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A08554 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08554-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8554

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 23, 2019
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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  the
          prohibition of certain acts in rodeos

          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 352 to read as follows:
     3    § 352. Use of animals in rodeos. 1. For the purposes of this section:
     4    (a) "Calf roping" shall mean capturing a calf with a lasso and binding
     5  its feet.
     6    (b)  "Electric  prod" shall mean a handheld device used to make cattle
     7  or other livestock move by striking or  poking  such  animal  with  such
     8  device  which  shocks such animal with a high voltage, low current elec-
     9  tric shock.
    10    (c) "Flank strap" or "bucking strap" shall mean a strap or rope  which
    11  is  tightly    cinched around the abdomen or genitals of a horse or bull
    12  causing such animal to buck.
    13    (d) "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, limited liability
    14  company, corporation, joint venture, association, trust, estate  or  any
    15  other  legal  entity,  and  any  officer, member, shareholder, director,
    16  employee, agent or representative of any such  entity.
    17    (e) "Rodeo" shall mean a public exhibition in  which  skills  such  as
    18  riding bulls or broncos, or roping animals, are displayed.
    19    (f)  "Sharpened spur" or "fixed spur" shall mean a sharp prod fixed to
    20  the heel of the rider of an animal which is used  to  make  such  animal
    21  buck violently.
    22    2. No person in a rodeo shall:
    23    (a) engage in calf roping;
    24    (b)  use  flank  straps or bucking straps on horses, bulls, cattle, or
    25  other livestock;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11706-01-9
        A. 8554                             2

     1    (c) use electric prods on horses, bulls, cattle, or  other  livestock;
     2  or
     3    (d)  use  sharpened  spurs or fixed spurs on horses, bulls, cattle, or
     4  other livestock.
     5    3. (a) Any person that violates the provisions of this section, or any
     6  rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, may be assessed, by the
     7  commissioner, a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars  for
     8  each  such  violation.  Each  violation  and  each  day  during  which a
     9  violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
    10    (b) Any person that violates the provisions  of  this  section,  shall
    11  have any permit or license to operate as a rodeo revoked.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.