State: Connecticut Go here for information about this law. ...

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State: Washington Substitute House Bill 1243 , signed into law, April 14, 2011 makes if a Class C felony to maliciously to kill or cause "substantial bodily harm" to "livestock" of another. Livestock "includes, ...

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State: Pennsylvania § 459-207.  Requirements for kennels    (a) Deleted by 1996, Dec. 11, P.L. 943, No. 151, § 5, effective in 60 days.      (A.1) PROHIBITION TO OPERATE; INJUNCTION; FINES.--      (1) It shall be unl ...

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State: Massachusetts § 801/2.  Devocalization of Dogs and Cats. [Effective July 21, 2010.]    (a)  For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:--    "Bo ...

Law - lauraallen - 14 Aug 2010 - 3:12pm - 0 comments

State: Pennsylvania § 459-206.  Kennels    (a) APPLICATIONS, KENNEL LICENSE CLASSIFICATIONS AND FEES.-- Any person who keeps or operates a kennel shall, on or before January 1 of each year, apply to the department for a k ...

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State: Illinois Ordinance No. G9-10 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7 OF THE ELGIN MUNICIPAL CODE, 1976, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "ANIMALS" WHEREAS, Title 7 of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976, as amended, entitled "Animals&qu ...

Law - lauraallen - 16 Apr 2010 - 4:15pm - 0 comments

State: § 459-206.  Kennels    (a) APPLICATIONS, KENNEL LICENSE CLASSIFICATIONS AND FEES.-- Any person who keeps or operates a kennel shall, on or before January 1 of each year, apply to the department for a kennel li ...

Law - lauraallen - 9 Apr 2010 - 4:39pm - 0 comments

State: Pennsylvania § 459-102.  Definitions    The following words and phrases when used in this act shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:     ...

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State: California 32-31.1 Retail sale of dogs and cats in pet stores prohibited. A. Findings and Intent. The city council, after several public meetings, finds as follows: 1. State and federal laws that regulate dog and ca ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Oct 2009 - 12:44pm - 0 comments

State: Florida County: Miami-Dade County TITLE ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO ANIMALS; CREATING SECTION 5-21 AND AMENDING SECTION 8CC-10 OF THE CODE OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY (THE "CODE"); REGULATING THE TETHERING OF DOGS; PROV ...

Law - lauraallen - 27 May 2009 - 4:39pm - 0 comments

State: Maine Sec. 2.   17 MRSA §1039  is enacted to read: § 1039 . Cruel confinement of calves raised for veal and sows during gestation 1 .   Definitions.     As used in t ...

Law - lauraallen - 18 May 2009 - 4:04pm - 0 comments

State: Maine An Act To Prohibit Cruel Confinement of Calves Raised for Veal and Sows during Gestation Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: Sec. 1.   7 MRSA §4020  is enacted to read: ...

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State: Florida County: Miami Dade County Sec. 5-17. Legislative intent. This article is intended to utilize the authority and powers of Miami-Dade County in order to secure for the citizens of this County the protection o ...

Law - lauraallen - 23 Apr 2009 - 10:15pm - 0 comments

State: Connecticut Tethering and confining of dog for unreasonable period of time. Fine. Any person who confines or tethers a dog for an unreasonable period of time shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first offen ...

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State: Michigan   December 20, 2007 EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2008 STATE OF MICHIGAN 94TH LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION OF 2007 Introduced by Reps. Espinoza, Polidori, Byrum, Byrnes, Brown, LeBlanc, Kathleen Law, Wojno, ...

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State: § 2156.  Animal fighting venture prohibition (a) Sponsoring or exhibiting an animal in an animal fighting venture.    (1) In general. Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person to ...

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State: Georgia 4-11-5.1. Euthanasia of dogs and cats by animal shelters or facilities operated for collection of stray, neglected, abandoned, or unwanted animals. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, the use o ...

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State: Ohio Local ordinances or resolutions to control dogs. (A) For the purposes of this section, ordinances or resolutions to control dogs include, but are not limited to, ordinances or resolutions concerned with the ownership, ke ...

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State: Wyoming § 11-31-301  Public nuisance; notice; penalties; rules and regulations; animal control districts and officers (a) A board of county commissioners may declare the running at large of any specified animals in un ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Jan 2009 - 7:20pm - 0 comments

State: West Virginia § 19-20-21  License fee for keeping vicious or dangerous dog Any person who keeps a dog which is generally considered to be vicious, for the purpose of protection, shall acquire a special license theref ...

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State: West Virginia § 19-20-20  Keeping vicious dogs; humane officers may kill such dogs Except as provided in section twenty-one [§ 19-20-21] of this article, no person shall own, keep or harbor any dog known by him to be ...

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State: Tennessee 44-17-120.  Destruction of dog causing death or serious injury to human - Notice to dog's owner. (a) Any dog which attacks a human and thereby causes death or serious injury may be destroyed upon the order of ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Jan 2009 - 7:15pm - 0 comments

State: Maryland § 11-511. Regulation of domestic animals -- Carroll and Frederick counties (a) Applicability. -- This section only applies to Carroll County and Frederick County. (b) Regulations -- Authority. -- In additi ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Jan 2009 - 7:13pm - 0 comments

State: Maryland § 11-504. Administration and enforcement of subtitle; special provisions as to certain counties (a) Sheriffs to enforce; special provision as to Calvert and Garrett counties; exemption for Washington County. -- ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Jan 2009 - 7:11pm - 0 comments

State: Maryland § 10-619. Dangerous dog (a) Definitions. -- (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. (2) "Dangerous dog" means a dog that: (i) without provocation ha ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Jan 2009 - 7:06pm - 0 comments

State: Kentucky 258.095.  Definitions for KRS 258.095 to 258.500. As used in KRS 258.095 to 258.500, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture; (2) "Comm ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Jan 2009 - 7:04pm - 0 comments

State: Kentucky 258.235.  Authority to kill or seize dog - Return by court to owner of vicious dog - Liability for damage - Proceeding by person attacked by dog - Disposition of dog after seizure - Powers of animal control officer ...

Law - lauraallen - 3 Jan 2009 - 7:00pm - 0 comments

State: Idaho § 25-2805. Dogs running at large -- Vicious dogs -- Penalty  (1) Any person, who, after complaint has been made by any person to the sheriff, who shall serve a copy of said notice upon such person complained of, wi ...

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State: Alabama § 3-1-3.  Vicious or dangerous animals, owner's liability. When any person owns or keeps a vicious or dangerous animal of any kind and, as a result of his careless management of the same or his allowing the same ...

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