Senate Bill S2589

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to the prosecution of aggravated cruelty to animals

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S2589 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4857
Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§353 & 353-a, Ag & Mkts L

2013-S2589 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person who kills or injures an animal by conduct which is done with a reckless disregard for the welfare of the animal shall be guilty of a felony.

2013-S2589 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S2589 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2589

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- 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  aggra-
  vated cruelty to animals

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 353 of the agriculture and markets law, as  amended
by  chapter 458 of the laws of 1985, the opening paragraph as amended by
chapter 523 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  S 353. Overdriving[,  torturing  and  injuring]  animals;  failure  to
provide  proper  sustenance.  A  person who overdrives[,] OR overloads[,
tortures or cruelly beats or unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates  or
kills]  any  animal,  whether  wild  or  tame,  and whether belonging to
himself or to another, or deprives any animal of  necessary  sustenance,
food  or  drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or
drink, or causes, procures or permits any animal to be overdriven[,]  OR
overloaded[, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed,
mutilated  or killed], or to be deprived of necessary food or drink, [or
who wilfully sets on  foot,  instigates,  engages  in,  or  in  any  way
furthers any act of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce
such  cruelty,]  is  guilty of a class A misdemeanor and for purposes of
paragraph (b) of subdivision one  of  section  160.10  of  the  criminal
procedure  law,  shall  be treated as a misdemeanor defined in the penal
law.
  Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit  or  interfere
with  any  properly  conducted scientific tests, experiments or investi-
gations, involving the use of living animals, performed or conducted  in
laboratories  or  institutions, which are approved for these purposes by
the state commissioner of health. The state commissioner of health shall
prescribe the rules under which such approvals shall be granted, includ-
ing therein standards regarding the  care  and  treatment  of  any  such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05618-01-3

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