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Location Bill  Title  Date  Category
New York  NY AB 2869  Prohibits the ownership, possession or harboring of a wild animal or reptile.  1/18/2013  Dead
Summary
Bill Text
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2869

                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                   January 18, 2013
                                      ___________

       Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Agriculture

       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  prohib-
         iting  the  ownership,  possession  or  harboring  of a wild animal or
         reptile

         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

    1    Section 1. Section 370 of the agriculture and markets law, as added by
    2  chapter 1047 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 370. [Protection  of  the  public from attack by] PROHIBITION OF THE
    4  OWNERSHIP, POSSESSION OR HARBORING OF wild  animals  and  reptiles.  Any
    5  person  owning, possessing or harboring a wild animal or reptile capable
    6  of inflicting bodily harm upon a human being[, who shall fail  to  exer-
    7  cise due care in safeguarding the public from attack by such wild animal
    8  or reptile,] is guilty of a [misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for
    9  not  more  than  one  year,  or  by a fine of not more than five hundred
   10  dollars, or by both] CLASS E FELONY AS DEFINED BY THE PENAL  LAW.    FOR
   11  THE  PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, "[Wild] WILD animal" [within the meaning
   12  of this section, shall not include  a  dog  or  cat  or  other  domestic
   13  animal]  IS  DEFINED  IN ACCORDANCE TO PARAGRAPH E OF SUBDIVISION SIX OF
   14  SECTION 11-0103 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
   15    Previous attacks upon a human being by such wild animal or reptile, or
   16  knowledge of the vicious propensities of such wild animal or reptile, on
   17  the part of the possessor or harborer thereof, shall not be required  to
   18  be  proven  by  the people upon a prosecution hereunder; and neither the
   19  fact that such wild animal or reptile  has  not  previously  attacked  a
   20  human  being,  nor lack of knowledge of the vicious propensities of such
   21  wild animal or reptile on the part of the owner, possessor  or  harborer
   22  thereof shall constitute a defense to a prosecution hereunder.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   24  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.
                                                                  LBD06313-01-3
 


Details
Category   Date   Detail  
  Status 6/20/2014  Bill died at adjournment; no carryover to 2015 
  Status 6/20/2013  Legislature adjourned for year; bills carry over to 2014. 
  Status 1/18/2013  Introduced and referred to Assembly Committee on Agriculture 
 


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