Bill Text: NY A07772 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalties for theft of a companion animal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A07772 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07772-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7772

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation  to  penal-
          ties for theft of a companion animal

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

     1    Section 1.  The closing paragraph of section 366  of  the  agriculture
     2  and  markets  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 185 of the laws of 2014, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    Any person violating any of  the  provisions  of  this  section,  upon
     5  conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding [one] five
     6  thousand  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  not to exceed [six months] one
     7  year, or by both.
     8    § 2.  This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11777-01-3