STATE OF NEW YORK
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3559
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas-
ing the monetary penalties for the failure to provide appropriate
shelter for a dog left outdoors
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 353-b of the
2 agriculture and markets law, as added by chapter 594 of the laws of
3 2003, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Any person who owns or has custody or control of a dog that is
5 left outdoors shall provide it with shelter appropriate to its breed,
6 physical condition and the climate. Any person who knowingly violates
7 the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation, punisha-
8 ble by a fine of [not less than] up to two hundred fifty dollars [nor
9 more than one hundred dollars] for a first offense, [and] a fine of [not
10 less than one] up to five hundred dollars [nor more than two hundred
11 fifty dollars] for a second violation and [subsequent offenses] a fine
12 of up to one thousand dollars for a third violation. Beginning seventy-
13 two hours after a charge of violating this section, each day that a
14 defendant fails to correct the deficiencies in the dog shelter for a dog
15 that he or she owns or that is in his or her custody or control and that
16 is left outdoors, so as to bring it into compliance with the provisions
17 of this section shall constitute a separate offense.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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