Bill Text: NY A00830 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 830 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits tethering, restraining, caging or penning of dogs or animals outdoors between the hours of 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.; may be tethered outdoors between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. to a stationary object or a pen or cage in a sized pen or cage four times the height and length of said dog or animal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A00830 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00830-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         830--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee  on  Agriculture  --  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 the
          tethering of dogs
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 353-g to read as follows:
     3    § 353-g. Tethering, restraining, caging or  penning  of  dogs.  1.  It
     4  shall  be  unlawful  to  tie, tether, restrain, cage or pen a working or
     5  non-working dog outdoors, between the hours of 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
     6    2. A working or non-working dog may be tied, tethered, caged or penned
     7  outdoors between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., to a stationary  object
     8  or a pen or cage in a sized pen or cage four times the height and length
     9  of  said  dog; provided it is in a manner that is not inhumane or detri-
    10  mental to the dog's welfare, doesn't cause the dog to choke, permits the
    11  dog to escape harm and permits the dog to reach food, water,  shade  and
    12  dry ground.
    13    3.  Any  person  who knowingly violates the provisions of this section
    14  shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by incarceration  in  city,
    15  town,  village  or  county  jail for not less than two days and not more
    16  than six months, shall perform between forty-eight and one hundred twen-
    17  ty hours of community service, and shall be subject to a fine of between
    18  two hundred dollars and one thousand dollars, upon their first  offense.
    19  Upon their second offense, such person shall be subject to incarceration
    20  in city, town, village or county jail for not less than ten days and not
    21  more  than  six  months,  and  shall be subject to a fine of between one
    22  thousand dollars and two thousand dollars.  Upon  their  third  offense,
    23  such person shall be subject to a felony.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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