New York § 357 - 357Selling or offering to sell or exposing diseased animal

Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 357 — 357Selling or offering to sell or exposing diseased animal, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 357. 357Selling or offering to sell or exposing diseased animal

§ 357. Selling or offering to sell or exposing diseased animal. A person who wilfully sells or offers to sell, uses, exposes, or causes or permits to be sold, offered for sale, used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the life or health of human beings, or animals, or which is diseased past recovery, or who refuses upon demand to deprive of life an animal affected with any such disease, 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.

Source: official New York text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 357 ("357Selling or offering to sell or exposing diseased animal") is part of the New York Consolidated Laws, the codified statutory law of New York. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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