Bill Text: NY A01843 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions of the agriculture and markets law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-08 - reported referred to codes [A01843 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01843-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1843--B 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 12, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, BENEDETTO, HOYT, MAISEL, MILLMAN, KAVANAGH, PHEFFER, PAULIN, TITONE, P. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BING, BOYLAND, COLTON, GABRYSZAK, HEVESI, LIFTON, REILLY, SWEENEY, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 animal OR WILDLIFE, AS 7 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION 11-0103 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL 8 CONSERVATION LAW, OTHER THAN INSECTS, with aggravated cruelty. For 9 purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall mean conduct which: 10 (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii) is done or 11 carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner. 12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02265-03-1