Assembly Bill No. 448–Assemblywoman Segerblom (by request)

March 10, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture and Mining

 

SUMMARY—Prohibits animal shelter from releasing animals for research or experimentation under certain circumstances. (BDR 50-1499)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: Yes.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to animals; prohibiting an animal shelter from releasing animals for research or experimentation under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. Chapter 574 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto

1-2 a new section to read as follows:

1-3 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person or animal

1-4 shelter shall not sell, buy, barter or give or offer to sell, buy, barter or

1-5 give an animal to a person or governmental entity for research or

1-6 experimentation.

1-7 2. Any person, except an animal shelter, may sell, buy, barter or give

1-8 an animal to the faculty of a regularly incorporated medical college or

1-9 university of this state or to a licensed hospital or medical laboratory for

1-10 research or experimentation.

1-11 3. A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a

1-12 misdemeanor. As used in this subsection, "person" includes an operator.

1-13 4. As used in this section:

1-14 (a) "Animal shelter" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 574.240.

1-15 (b) "Operator" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 574.290.

2-1 Sec. 2. NRS 574.050 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-2 574.050 As used in NRS 574.050 to 574.200, inclusive [:] , and

2-3 section 1 of this act:

2-4 1. "Animal" does not include the human race, but includes every other

2-5 living creature.

2-6 2. "Torture" or "cruelty" includes every act, omission or neglect,

2-7 whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering or death is caused or

2-8 permitted.

2-9 Sec. 3. The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses

2-10 that were committed before October 1, 1999.

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