Bill Text: NY S01677 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1677

Bill Title: Increases fines for selling disabled Equidae.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3552A [S01677 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01677-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1677--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD04724-03-3