Bill Text: NY S01137 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the maximum fine for the misdemeanor of abandonment of animals to $2,000.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-06 - referred to agriculture [S01137 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01137-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1137 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas- ing the punishment for the abandonment of animals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 355 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended 2 by chapter 458 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 355. Abandonment of animals. A person being the owner or possessor, 4 or having charge or custody of an animal, who abandons such animal, or 5 leaves it to die in a street, road or public place, or who allows such 6 animal, if it [become] becomes disabled, to lie in a public street, road 7 or public place more than three hours after he or she receives notice 8 that it is left disabled, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by 9 imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than 10 [one] two thousand dollars, or by both. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 12 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05959-01-7
