STATE OF NEW YORK
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2018
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to aggra-
vated 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.
LBD07343-01-9
