STATE OF NEW YORK
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- 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 increas-
ing the punishment for the abandonment of animals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 355 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended
2 by chapter 458 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 355. Abandonment of animals. A person being the owner or possessor,
4 or having charge or custody of an animal, who abandons such animal, or
5 leaves it to die in a street, road or public place, or who allows such
6 animal, if it [become] becomes disabled, to lie in a public street, road
7 or public place more than three hours after he or she receives notice
8 that it is left disabled, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by
9 imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than
10 [one] two thousand dollars, or by both.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
12 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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