STATE OF NEW YORK
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2059--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, CUSICK, BRINDISI -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. MURRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to penal-
ties for the failure to provide appropriate shelter to 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] two hundred fifty dollars [nor more
9 than one hundred dollars] for a first offense, [and] a fine of [not less
10 than one] five hundred dollars [nor more than two hundred fifty dollars]
11 for a second violation and [subsequent offenses] a fine of one thousand
12 dollars for a third violation. Beginning seventy-two hours after a
13 charge of violating this section, each day that a defendant fails to
14 correct the deficiencies in the dog shelter for a dog that he or she
15 owns or that is in his or her custody or control and that is left
16 outdoors, so as to bring it into compliance with the provisions of this
17 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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