Bill Text: NY S03867 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3867 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Makes it unlawful to force feed birds, by hand or machine, for the purpose of fatty enlargement of such bird's liver.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S03867 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03867-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3867
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 8, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation  to  making
         it unlawful to force feed birds under certain circumstances
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 353 of the agriculture and
    2  markets law, as amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005,  is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    A  person  who  overdrives,  overloads,  tortures  or cruelly beats or
    5  unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates or  kills  any  animal,  whether
    6  wild  or  tame,  and  whether  belonging  to  himself  or to another, or
    7  deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food  or  drink,  OR  FORCE
    8  FEEDS  A  BIRD, BY HAND OR MACHINE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF FATTY ENLARGEMENT
    9  OF SUCH BIRD'S LIVER, or neglects or refuses to furnish it  such  suste-
   10  nance  or  drink,  or causes, procures or permits any animal to be over-
   11  driven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably  injured,
   12  maimed,  mutilated  or  killed,  or  to be deprived of necessary food or
   13  drink, or who wilfully sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or  in  any
   14  way  furthers  any  act  of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to
   15  produce such cruelty, is  guilty  of  a  class  A  misdemeanor  and  for
   16  purposes  of  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of section 160.10 of the
   17  criminal procedure law, shall be treated as a misdemeanor defined in the
   18  penal law.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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