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OH HB90
Bill
Status
5/15/2013
Primary Sponsor
Ronald Gerberry
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AI Summary
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Prohibits owners, managers, and employees of dog kennels from knowingly torturing, tormenting, mutilating, beating, poisoning, or killing companion animals, with violations constituting a felony of the fifth degree.
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Prohibits dog kennel owners, managers, and employees from negligently committing acts causing unnecessary pain or suffering, omitting care, committing neglect, killing animals, or depriving animals of necessary sustenance, with violations constituting a misdemeanor of the first degree.
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Grants prosecutors discretion to prosecute dog kennel employees under either the knowing cruelty provision or the negligent treatment provision when both violations occur in the same incident.
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Revises the definition of "cruelty," "torment," and "torture" to include acts, omissions, or neglect causing unnecessary or unjustifiable pain or suffering against animals, removing language requiring a "reasonable remedy or relief."
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Establishes new legal definitions for dog kennels, boarding kennels, training kennels, livestock, and related animal care terms, and clarifies that these animal cruelty provisions do not apply to lawful veterinary practices, scientific research, or common training devices used appropriately.
Legislative Description
To specifically prohibit an owner, manager, or employee of a dog kennel from committing cruel treatment of a companion animal, to give a prosecutor who prosecutes an owner, manager, or employee of a dog kennel who commits cruel treatment of a companion animal discretion in prosecuting that person for the offense, to revise provisions regarding the negligent treatment of companion animals, and to revise the definition of "cruelty," "torment," and "torture" in the Humane Societies Law.
Companion animals-prohibit cruel treatment
Last Action
To Agriculture
5/16/2013