New York
Anti-Cruelty
StatutesCONSOLIDATED
LAWS OF NEW YORK
AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW
CHAPTER 69 OF THE CONSOLIDATED
LAWS
ARTICLE 26--ANIMALS s 353. Overdriving,
torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide proper sustenance A person
who overdrives, overloads, tortures or cruelly beats or unjustifiably injures,
maims, mutilates or kills any animal, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging
to himself or to another, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food
or drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink, or causes,
procures or permits any animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly
beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated or killed, or to be deprived
of necessary food or drink, or who wilfully sets on foot, instigates, engages
in, or in any way furthers any act of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending
to produce such cruelty, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment
for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars,
or by both. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit or interfere
with any properly conducted scientific tests, experiments or investigations, involving
the use of living animals, performed or conducted in laboratories or institutions,
which are approved for these purposes by the state commissioner of health. The
state commissioner of health shall prescribe the rules under which such approvals
shall be granted, including therein standards regarding the care and treatment
of any such animals. Such rules shall be published and copies thereof conspicuously
posted in each such laboratory or institution. The state commissioner of health
or his duly authorized representative shall have the power to inspect such laboratories
or institutions to insure compliance with such rules and standards. Each such
approval may be revoked at any time for failure to comply with such rules and
in any case the approval shall be limited to a period not exceeding one year.
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