New York Laws
Article 195 - Official Misconduct and Obstruction of Public Servants Generally
195.11 - Harming an Animal Trained to Aid a Person With a Disability in the Second Degree.


the second degree.

A person is guilty of harming an animal trained to aid a person with a
disability in the second degree when such person intentionally causes
physical injury to such animal while it is in the performance of aiding
a person with a disability, and thereby renders such animal incapable of
providing such aid to such person, or to another person with a
disability.

For purposes of this section and section 195.12 of this article, the
term "disability" means "disability" as defined in subdivision
twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law.

Harming an animal trained to aid a person with a disability in the
second degree is a class B misdemeanor.