Bill Text: NY S09097 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases fines for selling disabled Equidae.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-09 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S09097 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S09097-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9097 IN SENATE May 9, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 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 than 11 [five dollars nor more than one hundred] one thousand dollars, or by 12 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. LBD15174-03-2
