Bill Text: NY A03552 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases fines for selling disabled Equidae.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-12-13 - signed chap.724 [A03552 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A03552-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3552--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, LUPARDO -- 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 increas- ing fines for selling disabled Equidae The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 358 of the agriculture and markets law, as added 2 by chapter 1047 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 358. Selling disabled [horses] Equidae. It shall be unlawful for 4 any person holding an auctioneer's license knowingly to receive or offer 5 for sale or to sell at public auction, other than at a sheriff's or 6 judicial sale under a court order, any [horse] Equidae which by reason 7 of debility, disease or lameness, or for any other cause, could not be 8 worked in this state without violating the law against cruelty to 9 animals. [Any person violating any provision] A violation of this 10 section shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not [less] more 11 than [five dollars nor more than one hundred] one thousand dollars, or 12 by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and 13 imprisonment. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04724-02-3
