STATE OF NEW YORK
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7772
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 15, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to penal-
ties for theft of a companion animal
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 366 of the agriculture
2 and markets law, as amended by chapter 185 of the laws of 2014, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 Any person violating any of the provisions of this section, upon
5 conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding [one] five
6 thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed [six months] one
7 year, or by both.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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