STATE OF NEW YORK
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3237--A
Cal. No. 347
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, ADAMS, ADDABBO, ALESI, AVELLA, BALL, BONA-
CIC, CARLUCCI, DeFRANCISCO, DILAN, DUANE, GIANARIS, GOLDEN, GRIFFO,
HASSELL-THOMPSON, KLEIN, KRUEGER, MARCELLINO, MAZIARZ, McDONALD,
NOZZOLIO, O'MARA, OPPENHEIMER, PERKINS, ROBACH, ZELDIN -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Agriculture -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate
and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored
to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas-
ing certain penalties for violating the prohibition of animal fighting
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 351 of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as added by chapter 308 of the laws of 2008, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 5. (a) Any person who engages in the conduct specified in paragraph
5 (b) of this subdivision is guilty of a [violation] class B misdemeanor
6 punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed three months, or
7 by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and
8 imprisonment. Any person who engages in the conduct specified in para-
9 graph (b) of this subdivision after having been convicted within the
10 previous five years of a violation of this subdivision or subdivision
11 four of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by
12 imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to
13 [exceeded] exceed one thousand dollars, or by both [by] such fine and
14 imprisonment.
15 (b) The knowing presence as a spectator at any place where an exhibi-
16 tion of animal fighting is being conducted.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law and shall only apply to offenses committed on or after
19 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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