A 897: Criminalizes knowingly causing a minor to attend a place where exhibition of animal fighting is being conducted, establishes such offense is considered a misdemeanor.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 897 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to 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 4 of section 351 of the agriculture and markets 2 law, as added by chapter 150 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. (a) Any person who engages in conduct specified in paragraph (b) 5 [hereof] or (c) of this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor and is 6 punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year, or by a 7 fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and impri- 8 sonment. 9 (b) The knowing presence as a spectator having paid an admission fee 10 or having made a wager at any place where an exhibition of animal fight- 11 ing is being conducted; or 12 (c) Knowingly causing a minor to attend an exhibition of animal fight- 13 ing. The term "minor" means a person under the age of sixteen years 14 old. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02871-01-5