Makes victims of certain dog attacks eligible for awards by the crime victims board; requires dog control officers to give victims a card with notice thereof.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to making victims of
certain dog attacks eligible for awards by the crime victims board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 621 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 710 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. "Crime" shall mean (a) an act committed in New York state which
5 would, if committed by a mentally competent criminally responsible
6 adult, who has no legal exemption or defense, constitute a crime as
7 defined in and proscribed by law; [or]
8 (b) an act committed outside the state of New York against a resident
9 of the state of New York which would be compensable had it occurred
10 within the state of New York and which occurred in a state which does
11 not have an eligible crime victim compensation program as such term is
12 defined in the federal victims of crime act of 1984; [or]
13 (c) an act of terrorism, as defined in section 2331 of title 18,
14 United States Code, committed outside of the United States against a
15 resident of New York state; or
16 (d) a violation of subdivision seven of section one hundred twenty-one
17 of the agriculture and markets law.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth 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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