REPORT TITLE:
Animal Cruelty


DESCRIPTION:
Prohibits long-term leashing or chaining of animals.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2730
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 711-1109, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(1)  A person commits the offense of cruelty to animals if
 
 4 the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
 
 5      (a)  Overdrives, overloads, tortures, torments, cruelly
 
 6           beats or starves any animal, or causes or procures the
 
 7           overdriving, overloading, torture, torment, cruel
 
 8           beating or starving of any animal, or deprives a pet
 
 9           animal of necessary sustenance or causes such
 
10           deprivation;
 
11      (b)  Mutilates, poisons, or kills without need any animal
 
12           other than insects, vermin, or other pests;
 
13      (c)  Keeps, uses, or in any way is connected with or
 
14           interested in the management of, or receives money for
 
15           the admission of any person to, any place kept or used
 
16           for the purpose of fighting or baiting any bull, bear,
 
17           dog, cock, or other animal, and every person who
 
18           encourages, aids, or assists therein, or who permits or
 
19           suffers any place to be so kept or used;
 

 
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 1      (d)  Carries or causes to be carried, in or upon any vehicle
 
 2           or other conveyance, any animal in a cruel or inhumane
 
 3           manner; [or]
 
 4      (e)  Keeps any animal chained or leashed for a period of
 
 5           twenty-four or more consecutive hours and does not
 
 6           provide a period of two hours or more between each
 
 7           twenty-four hour period during which the animal is
 
 8           unchained or unleashed; or
 
 9     [(e)] (f)  Assists another in the commission of any act of
 
10           cruelty to any animal."
 
11      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
12 New statutory material is underscored.
 
13      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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15                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________