HB1314 (2008) Detail

Relative to animal cruelty.


HB 1314 – AS INTRODUCED

2008 SESSION

08-2507

08/04

HOUSE BILL 1314

AN ACT relative to animal cruelty.

SPONSORS: Rep. Webb, Merr 2; Rep. Kepner, Rock 15

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

ANALYSIS

This bill removes “worrying” from the list of legal reasons allowing the killing of a dog.

This bill also makes it illegal to take the life of an animal without lawful authority.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

08-2507

08/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight

AN ACT relative to animal cruelty.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Dogs and Cats; Killing Dogs Legalized. Amend RSA 466:28 to read as follows:

466:28 Killing Dogs Legalized. Any person may kill a dog that suddenly assaults the person while such person is peaceably walking or riding without the enclosure of its owner or keeper; and any person may kill a dog that is found out of the enclosure or immediate care of its owner or keeper [worrying,] wounding[,] or killing sheep, lambs, fowl, or other domestic animals.

2 Cruelty to Animals. Amend RSA 644:8, III(e)-(f)to read as follows:

(e) Negligently abandons any animal previously in his possession or custody by causing such animal to be left without supervision or adequate provision for its care, sustenance or shelter; [or]

(f) Otherwise negligently permits or causes any animal in his possession or custody to be subjected to cruelty, inhumane treatment or unnecessary suffering of any kind[.]; or

(g) Without lawful authority intentionally takes the life of any animal.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.