STATE OF NEW YORK
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1225
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to
restricting individuals from owning a companion animal after being
convicted of certain crimes involving animals
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 353-g to read as follows:
3 § 353-g. Restrictions on companion animal ownership. 1. A person
4 convicted of violating section three hundred fifty-one, three hundred
5 fifty-three, or three hundred fifty-three-a of this article shall be
6 prohibited from owning, harboring, possessing, adopting, fostering or
7 exercising control over a companion animal for a period of time to be
8 set at the discretion of the court. Such time period shall not be less
9 than five years after such conviction or if applicable, not less than
10 five years after the convicted person's release from imprisonment,
11 whichever is longer.
12 2. For the purposes of this section "companion animal" shall have the
13 same meaning as subdivision five of section three hundred fifty of this
14 article.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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