N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 95: Protecting the breeding of pure bred stock

§ 95. Protecting the breeding of pure bred stock. It shall be

unlawful for any person or persons owning or in the possession of any

bull of the age of more than six months, any stallion of the age of more

than eighteen months, or buck or boar over five months of age, to suffer

or permit such animal or animals to go, or range, or run at large on any

lands or premises without the consent of the person entitled to the

possession of such land or premises.

No right of action shall accrue under this section to any person who,

being liable to contribute to the erection or repair of a division fence

as required by the town law, shall neglect or refuse to make and

maintain his proportion of such fence, or shall permit the same to be

out of repair, for damages done by any animal described in this section

coming, by reason of such defective fence, from adjoining lands where

such animal was lawfully kept.