STATE OF NEW YORK
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4407--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL, MILLMAN, ROSENTHAL, ZEBROWSKI, ORTIZ,
JEFFRIES, SCHROEDER, PRETLOW, HEVESI, MARKEY, MAISEL, MOYA, PAULIN,
ENGLEBRIGHT, KAVANAGH, P. RIVERA, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. BARCLAY, BING, BOYLE, BRENNAN, BURLING, CONTE, CUSICK, CYMBROW-
ITZ, DenDEKKER, DINOWITZ, GABRYSZAK, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, LANCMAN, LATIM-
ER, V. LOPEZ, LUPARDO, McENENY, McLAUGHLIN, MENG, MONTESANO, MORELLE,
MURRAY, TEDISCO, TENNEY, THIELE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Agriculture -- reported and referred to the
Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas-
ing certain penalties for violating the prohibition of animal fighting
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 351 of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as added by chapter 308 of the laws of 2008, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 5. (a) Any person who engages in the conduct specified in paragraph
5 (b) of this subdivision is guilty of a [violation] class B misdemeanor
6 punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed three months, or
7 by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and
8 imprisonment. Any person who engages in the conduct specified in para-
9 graph (b) of this subdivision after having been convicted within the
10 previous five years of a violation of this subdivision or subdivision
11 four of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by
12 imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to
13 [exceeded] exceed one thousand dollars, or by both [by] such fine and
14 imprisonment.
15 (b) The knowing presence as a spectator at any place where an exhibi-
16 tion of animal fighting is being conducted.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law and shall only apply to offenses committed on or after
19 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06341-02-1
