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OH HB641
Bill
Status
10/20/2014
Primary Sponsor
Nicholas Celebrezze
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AI Summary
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Creates an animal abuser registry requiring individuals convicted of or pleading guilty to specified animal cruelty violations (Ohio Revised Code sections 959.01, 959.02, 959.03, 959.13, 959.131, 959.14, 959.15, 959.16, 959.17, 959.18, 959.20) to register with the Attorney General within 30 days of conviction.
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Requires registrants to submit personal information, details of the violation including descriptions of victim animals, enforcement actions taken, and a $10 registration fee to be deposited in the animal abuser registration fund.
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Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a publicly accessible registry available on the Attorney General's website and to law enforcement agencies, with law enforcement and humane society agents required to report violations to the Attorney General.
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Prohibits animal shelters from placing animals in their care for adoption to any individual whose name appears on the animal abuser registry.
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Creates the animal abuser registration fund, funded by the $10 registration fees, to be used by the Attorney General to administer and enforce the registry provisions.
Legislative Description
To require violators of specified statutes in the Animal Cruelty Law to register with the Attorney General, to require the Attorney General to establish a registry of those violators, and to prohibit an animal shelter from placing for adoption an animal in the shelter's care with such a violator.
Animal cruelty-register violators/shelters- no animal adoption by registrants
Last Action
To Judiciary
10/20/2014