STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to requiring the appointment
          of an assistant district attorney in each  county  to  oversee  prose-
          cution of animal crimes

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The county law is amended by adding a new section 702-b  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  702-b.  Appointment  of  assistant  district  attorneys  for animal
     4  crimes. The district attorney in each county shall appoint at least  one
     5  assistant  district attorney to be responsible for overseeing the prose-
     6  cution of animal crimes, including, but not limited  to,  animal  crimes
     7  committed  in  violation  of  article  twenty-six of the agriculture and
     8  markets law.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.





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