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The Monthly National Legislation Reporthttp://mnlreport.typepad.com/Page 66 of 3307/5/2010NEVADANorth Las Vegas - Ordinance 2522 - An ordinance of the City of North Las Vegas amending Chapter 13 of the North Las Vegas Municipal Code prohibiting the sale of animals on publicstreets and property and regulating the outdoor sale of animals by requiring a permit, amending section 150 to incorporate change in state law; and providing for other matters properlyrelated thereto:NEW HAMPSHIREHB1525 - AN ACT relative to physical therapists practicing on animals.HB1624 - dead in CommitteeNEW MEXICOHB222 - AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION; CREATING THE VETERINARY MEDICINE AND ANIMAL SHELTERING BOARD; TRANSFERRING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OFTHE BOARD OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND THE ANIMAL SHELTERING BOARD TO THE VETERINARY MEDICINE AND ANIMAL SHELTERING BOARD; RECONCILING MULTIPLE AMENDMENTS TOTHE SAME SECTION OF LAW IN LAWS 2009. TABLEDNORTH CAROLINAHigh Point - City Council is considering new animal ordinances that would limit the time an owner can tether their dog or how many dogs someone can own. City Councilman Mike Pugh wantstougher animal laws. Pugh says High Point has a leash law, but he says the city could limit the number of hours a dog can be tethered and how many a person can own.OHIOSB95 - A BILL To amend sections 955.02, 955.10, 955.12, 955.20, 955.26, and 1901.183 and to enact sections 956.01, 956.011, 956.02 to 956.08, 956.081, 956.09 to 956.20, 956.98, and956.99 of the Revised Code to establish licensing requirements and standards of care for certain dog breeding kennels, dog intermediaries, and animal rescues for dogsOKLAHOMAHB2745 - Oklahoma Pet Quality Assurance and Protection Act - An Act relating to animals; creating the Oklahoma Pet Quality Assurance and Protection Act; providing for administration;defining terms; providing for a rule advisory committee; specifying membership; establishing a voluntary license procedure; providing for application form; requiring applicants to submitcertain protocol; limiting issuance of licenses; authorizing temporary permit; specifying certain requirements to be met before license approval or renewal; specifying procedures forrenewal; specifying late penalty; establishing fees; specifying requirements for display of license and certain information; providing for the promulgation of rules consistent with United StatesDepartment of Agriculture standards; authorizing certain inspection system; providing for enforcement; providing for disclosure of records; prohibiting the issuance of a license to certainpersons; stating penalties for violation; establishing the Pet Quality Assurance Enforcement Fund; providing for revenues; providing for use of fund; providing for expenditures; specifyingconditions justifying refusal of license; providing for written notice; authorizing seizure and impoundment of dogs or cats upon certain circumstances; prohibiting certain dogs and cats to besold or transferred; requiring certain information to accompany dogs or cats; requiring certain records be maintained; providing for codification; providing for noncodification; and providingan effective date.OREGONOregon Puppy Mill Bill is law As of January 1st, 2010, If you sell more than 20dogs or breed 3 litters a year, in the State of Oregon, you are required to abide bythis statute and to give a copy to all purchasers. A Lobbyist/Director of the HumaneSociety of the United States (HSUS) has stated that the HSUS intends to "come backin subsequent years to lower those numbers (20 dogs/3 litters)". Every Democrat inthe Oregon State Legislature voted for this bill.HB2986- A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to the inbreeding of dogs. Prohibits inbreeding of dogs by breeder. Makes first violation subject to maximum fine of $360. Makes second orsubsequent violation subject to maximum fine of $720. Requires breeder to keep records showing parentage and grandparentage of dogs and puppies. Makes violation subject tomaximum fine of $720.Regent- (02/18/10) city leaders discussing whether to ban pit bulls and Rottweilers from town decided Thursday to possibly throw German shepherds into the banned mix as well.SOUTH CAROLINATitle 23 - Law Enforcement and Public Safety - CHAPTER 29 - SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES REGISTRATION ACT - "Subversive organization" means every corporation, society, association,camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessityor propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawfulmeans. SECTION 23-29-30. Effect on freedom of press or speech.SOUTH DAKOTAHB1146 - Commercial Dog Breeding Bill - DIES in committeeTENNESSEENashville - (02/02/10) Metro Nashville Council approved the measure to banned the sale of animals along the roadsideUTAHHB107 - This bill amends provisions of the Utah Code relating to an animal shelter providing an animal to be used for research or educational purposes.VIRGINIA
The Monthly National Legislation Reporthttp://mnlreport.typepad.com/Page 67 of 3307/5/2010HB140 - deadHB487- A BILL to amend and reenact § 29.1-501 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries; regulatory authority. Expands the authority of the Board of Gameand Inland Fisheries to adopt regulations on the feeding of any game, game animals, or furbearing animals. Currently, the Board has the authority to adopt regulations pertaining to the hunting,taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, and transportation of any wild bird, wild animal, or inland water fish.WASHINGTONHB2806/SB6299 (revised)- An act relating to animal inspections.Passed SenateSB6566- AN ACT relating to criminal offenses involving animals or natureal resources. Prohibiting terrorist acts against animal and natural resource facilities.WEST VIRGINIAHB4407 - A BILL to amend and reenact §19-20A-2 and §19-20A-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §19-20A-4a, all relatingto rabies vaccination of dogs and cats; requiring that administered rabies vaccinations be capable of producing immunity for three years; requiring dogs and cats to be revaccinated every three years; andallowing for letters of exemption from rabies vaccination for medical reasons.WISCONSINAB747 - An Act to amend 813.12 (3) (a) (intro.), 813.12 (4) (a) (intro.), 813.122 (4) (a) (intro.), 813.122 (5) (a) (intro.), 813.125 (3) (a) (intro.), 813.125 (4) (a) (intro.), 951.01 (2), 951.13(intro.), 951.13 (2), 951.15, 951.18 (1) and 951.18 (4) (c); and to create 948.057, 951.18 (1m), 951.18 (1r) and 951.18 (4) (d) of the statutes; relating to: crimes against animals and providing apenalty.AB793/SB580 - An Act relating to: animals taken into custody.Sturgeon Bay - City Commission members are considering a ban on "pit bulls" stating they want to be "proactive" and to "err on the side of caution." A proacive ordinance would includemeasures to educate dog owners on responsible dog ownership, as well as tough penalties for owners who are not responsible with their dogs -- regardless of the breed of dog they own.The ordinance encompasses everything from pot-bellied pigs to beekeeping in the city limits, but the pit bull ban is the most contentious. UPDATE (02/19/10) The city has decided to rewrite theproposed animal ordinance to remove the breed-specific ban.Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)February 04, 2010JANUARY, 2010WELCOME TO 2010 !!!We SAID "not guilty!"If experts cannot ID dog breeds, how can cities?By Bill JohnsonDenver Post Columnist12/16/2009 01:00:00 AM MSTSo you think you know about dogs? Sorry, you do not.I break this news to you only because I got put to such a test Tuesday, along with about two dozen animal-shelter directors, volunteers, dog trainers and others who make a dog-relatedliving. The task was simple: View 20 dogs on a videotape and identify each one. Is it purebred or mixed? If believed a mix, what is the mixture of each? How hard could it be?All I know about dogs, I quickly learned, is that one lives with me. Of the 20 dogs shown, I got the breed correct one time, but only because it looked like Lupe, my mutt. I did only slightlyworse than the professionals. "I was completely wrong. I probably got three to four out of the 20," claimed Laurie Buffington, a Berthoud dog trainer, as we left a classroom at the LongmontHumane Society."Think you can tell just by looking?" was the teaser for the breed identification study we participated in. It was run by Victoria L. Voith, a professor of animal behavior in the College ofVeterinary Medicine at Western University in Pomona, Calif. What I and the others ultimately learned is you cannot simply look at a dog and know what it is.Shelter workers, she explained, are generally 75 percent wrong when they list or tell you the breed of a dog. The only sure-fire way of knowing, she said, is DNA testing. "I started this study,"Voith said, "because I am a lover of German shepherds and was appalled that every short-haired breed with brown hair was called a German shepherd. It simply isn't so."Outside of the Lupe-looking Chihuahua-mix, I thought every dog looked like a pit bull or a shepherd-mix. "So what in the hell is Lupe?" I jotted in frustration in my notebook about halfwaythrough the session. I was not getting even remotely close. My favorite of all was the 20th dog, a three-legged cutie that had been thrown from a car. She was not the English sheepdog Isuspected, but a shih-tzu. Everyone else misidentified her too.Through her work, Voith hopes to put to the lie two things: studies on which dogs bite the most, and the wisdom of municipal breed-specific bans, such as Denver's, where hundreds ofsuspected pit bulls have been put to death. "Visual identification simply is not in high agreement with DNA analysis," she said when I protested that a dog I had falsely, dead-to-rightsidentified as a pit bull turned out through DNA testing to be mostly Dalmatian. "Dogs in Denver may be dying needlessly," she said. She hopes that her work, which she expects to bepublished in a year, will better inform cities and statistics gatherers on breeds most likely to bite. "We really don't know yet. I don't think we have ever really known," she said.The professionals all walked out scratching their heads, each mumbling something akin to "that was very informative!" "I always thought I was really good at identifying breeds," a chastened
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