Report Title:
Cruelty to Animals; Abandonment
Description:
Amends section 711-1109, HRS (cruelty to animals), to include the abandonment of an animal in the offense of cruelty to animals. Repeals section 143-2.6, HRS, regarding animal desertion.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1959 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to animals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 711-1109, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (1) and (2) to read as follows:
"(1) A person commits the offense of cruelty to animals if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
(a) Overdrives, overloads, tortures, torments, cruelly beats, or starves any animal, or causes or procures the overdriving, overloading, torture, torment, cruel beating, or starving of any animal, or deprives a pet animal of necessary sustenance or causes such deprivation;
(b) Mutilates, poisons, or kills without need any animal other than insects, vermin, or other pests;
(c) Keeps, uses, or in any way is connected with or interested in the management of, or receives money for the admission of any person to, any place kept or used for the purpose of fighting or baiting any bull, bear, dog, cock, or other animal, and every person who encourages, aids, or assists therein, or who permits or suffers any place to be so kept or used;
(d) Carries or causes to be carried, in or upon any vehicle or other conveyance, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner; [or]
(e) Abandons on the premises of another, including any public property, any animal that is in the custody of, owned by, or required to be licensed to the person without the intention of returning to take possession of the animal; or
[(e)] (f) Assists another in the commission of any act of cruelty to any animal.
(2) Subsection (1)(a), (b), (d), (e), (f), and the following subsection (3) are not applicable to accepted veterinary practices and to activities carried on for scientific research governed by standards of accepted educational or medicinal practices."
SECTION 2. Section 143-2.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.
["[§143-2.6] Animal desertion. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any animal or any person in possession of an animal that belongs to another person to leave the animal without the intention of returning to it.
Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor."]
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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