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History
- Print number 4452a
- Amend (t) and recommit to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Relates to prohibiting the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals
In Assembly Committee · Rules · Sponsor Deborah Glick
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Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals
Purpose
To amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting sport killing of zoo, carnival or circus animals.
Summary of provisions
This bill will amend the environmental conservation law by adding a new section which will prohibit the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals. It also stipulates that no zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus can sell, offer for sale, distribute, barter or donate any animal where the animal may be intentionally taken. Additionally, no person that operates or manages a facility including, but not limited to a facility that harbors non-native big game mammals, or any other facility that permits the taking of animals, shall purchase, accept or receive any animal that such person knows or has reason to know is presently or was formerly a part of a zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus.
Violations of this law will be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than two thousand dollars.
Nothing in this section shall preempt a municipal corporation from enacting more restrictive law, ordinances or regulation governing animals in zoos, petting zoos carnivals or circuses.
Justification
This bill seeks to protect animals that have spend a better part of their life in captivity from an inhumane and unnecessarily painful death. Animals coming from zoos, petting zoos, circuses and carnivals have been trained and domesticated making them unfairly easy targets for hunters. Killing the animal once it has served its purpose should not be the answer to ridding the facility of excess animals.
Additionally, nothing in this bill should be construed to affect protections afforded to animals in other sections of law.
Legislative history
New bill
Fiscal implications
None to the State.
Effective date
The sixtieth day after it shall have become law.
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