STATE OF NEW YORK
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5083
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 3, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. BALL -- 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 expand-
ing the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to
animals during the commission of a felony
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when[,]: either
5 (a) with no justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or
6 intentionally causes serious physical injury to a companion animal with
7 aggravated cruelty[.]; or
8 (b) in the course of commission of a felony, or of immediate flight
9 therefrom, he or she causes physical injury or death to a companion
10 animal.
11 For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall mean conduct
12 which: (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii) is done
13 or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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