Bill Text: NY A00955 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 955 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Criminalizes knowingly causing a minor to attend a place where exhibition of animal fighting is being conducted, such is considered a misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A00955 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00955-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           955
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          prohibition of animal fighting
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 351 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law, as added by chapter 150 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  (a)  Any  person who engages in conduct specified in paragraph (b)
     5  [hereof] or (c) of this subdivision is guilty of a  misdemeanor  and  is
     6  punishable  by imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year, or by a
     7  fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and impri-
     8  sonment.
     9    (b) The knowing presence as a spectator having paid an  admission  fee
    10  or having made a wager at any place where an exhibition of animal fight-
    11  ing is being conducted; or
    12    (c)  Knowingly causes a minor to attend an exhibition of animal fight-
    13  ing.  The term "minor" means a person under the  age  of  sixteen  years
    14  old.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03675-01-9