STATE OF NEW YORK
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5116
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 1, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 penal-
ties for aggravated cruelty to animals
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, with no
5 justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or intentionally
6 causes serious physical injury to [a companion] an animal with aggra-
7 vated cruelty. For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall
8 mean conduct which: (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or
9 (ii) is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic
10 manner.
11 § 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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