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§ 195.11 Harming an animal trained to aid a person with a disability in 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.
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