Makes it unlawful to conduct excessive breeding of dogs in an uncontrolled manner and location so as to be in in a cruel and inhuman manner; makes crime a misdemeanor subject to fine and jail.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6797
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 12, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. BALL, SPANO, TOBACCO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. CALHOUN, MENG, SCOZZAFAVA, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to exces-
sive breeding of dogs
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 366-b to read as follows:
3 § 366-b. Excessive breeding of dogs. It shall be unlawful for any
4 person to conduct the excessive breeding of dogs in an uncontrolled
5 manner and location so as to be in a cruel and inhumane manner.
6 Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty
7 of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than five
8 hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by
9 both such fine and imprisonment.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05949-01-9
