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NV - Crimes - Senate Bill 62 (Amended Anti-Cruelty Statute)
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Nevada Senate Bill 62 (2001)
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This Nevada Senate Bill increases the penalties for certain mistreatment of animals; authorizing a court to require a defendant convicted of certain offenses involving the mistreatment of animals to submit to a psychiatric evaluation and to participate in counseling or therapy as a condition of probation. The bill also retains prohibitions against animal fighting and other forms of animal cruelty.
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NV - Cruelty - Consolidated Cruelty Statutes
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NV ST 574.010 - 510
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This comprehensive section comprises the Nevada anti-cruelty statutes. The section first empowers private prevention of cruelty to animals societies and outlines their powers and responsibilities, including the power to arrest. Under this section, "animal" does not include the human race, but includes every other living creature. Animal cruelty, as described in Section 574.100, prohibits the overdriving, overloading, torture, cruel beating or unjustifiable injuring, maiming, mutilation or killing of an animal, as well as the deprivation of necessary sustenance, food or drink. The first offense under this section is a misdemeanor with enhancement to a felony for a third or subsequent convictions. Animals fighting is also prohibited under the section, with enhanced sentences for subsequent convictions. Other specific crimes include mistreatment of dogs, abandonment of animals, poisoning (although the section does not prohibit the destruction of "noxious animals"), and basic requirements for the care of dogs and cats kept in kennels or sold by pounds or pet shops.
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NV - Dangerous - Dangerous Dog
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NV ST 202.500
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This Nevada statute defines a "dangerous dog," as a dog, that without provocation, on two separate occasions within 18 months, behaves menacingly to a degree that would lead a reasonable person to defend him or herself against substantial bodily harm, when the dog is either off the premises of its owner or keeper or not confined in a cage or pen. A dog then becomes "vicious" when, without being provoked, it kills or inflicts substantial bodily harm upon a human being. If substantial bodily harm results from an attack by a dog known to be vicious, its owner or keeper is guilty of a category D felony. Under the statute, a dog may not be declared dangerous if it attacks as a defensive act against a person who was committing or attempting to commit a crime or who provoked the dog.
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NV - Dog - Consolidated Dog Laws
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NV ST 193.021; NV ST 202.500; NV ST 206.150; NV ST 244.359; NV ST 269.225; NV ST 503.200; NV ST 503.631; NV ST 568.370; NV ST 575.020
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These statutes comprise Nevada's dog laws. Among the provisions include a link to proper care requirements for companion animals, animal control ordinance provisions, and the dangerous dog law among others.
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NV - Dogs - Assistance Animal/Guide Dog Laws
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NV ST 118.105; 426.097; 426.099; 426.510; 426.515; 426.790; 426.805; 426.810; 426.820; 426.328; 426.330; 651.075; 704.145; and 706.366
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The following statutes comprise the state's relevant assistance animal and guide dog laws.
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NV - Domestic Violence -Orders for Protection Against Domestic Violence
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NEV. REV. STAT. §33.018 (2008)
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In Nevada, a knowing, purposeful or reckless course of conduct intended to harass the other such as injuring or killing an animal, is included in their definition of Domestic Violence. A victim can then get a Protection Order and enjoin the adverse party from physically injuring, threatening to injure or taking possession of any animal that is owned or kept by the applicant or minor child, either directly or through an agent.
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NV - Eagle - Protection of American eagle and golden eagle
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NV ST 503.610
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Nevada has a law that specifically protects both bald (American) and golden eagles. The statute makes it illegal to possess or capture by whatever means either species. The law does allow for the taking of an eagle pursuant to permit only if the eagle has seriously injured agricultural or other interests, provided it is consistent with federal law and no other alternative is appropriate. For discussion of federal Eagle Act, see Detailed Discussion.
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NV - Endangered Species
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NV ST 503.584 - 89
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These statutes provide that the Legislature of Nevada has an interest in protecting native species from extinction and sets forth the authority to establish programs to protect designated species. However, if a native species is found to be destructive under the statute, the statute provides for removal if appropriate. Under statute, the ultimate responsibility for management rests with the governor for reviewing state programs and entering into interstate and federal agreements.
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NV - Hunting - Prohibited acts; regulations; licenses; inapplicability to alternative livestock
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NV ST 504.295
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Under this Nevada statute, unless otherwise provided by statute no person may possess any live wildlife unless he is licensed by the division to do so, capture live wildlife in this state to stock a commercial or noncommercial wildlife facility, or possess or release from confinement any mammal for the purposes of hunting. However, the provisions of this section do not apply to alternative livestock and products made therefrom.
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NV - Ordinance - Ordinance concerning control of animals, license fee and designation of and requirement of liability insurance policy for inherently dangerous animals; applicability; civil liability in lieu of criminal penalty in certain circumstances
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NV ST 244.359
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This Nevada statute provides that each board of county commissioners may enact and enforce an ordinance related to dogs including licensing, regulating or prohibiting the running at large and disposal of all kinds of animals, establishing a pound, designating an animal as inherently dangerous and requiring the owner of such an animal to obtain a policy of liability insurance, among other things.
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NV - Ordinances - Las Vegas and Reno Animal Control Ordinances
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Las Vegas - 7.04.010 - 7.46.020; Reno - Sec. 8.28.000 - Sec. 8.28.700
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These ordinances comprise the cities of Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada's animal control provisions.
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NV - Pet Sales - Title 50. Animals. Chapter 574. Cruelty to Animals: Prevention and Penalties
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NV ST 574.450 - 510
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NV - Property - Personal Property Defined (Pets)
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NV ST 193.021
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Dogs, domestic animals and birds are considered personal property in Nevada.
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NV - Symbol - Assembly Bill 219 (Designation of Wild Horse As Nevada State Animal)
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Nevada Assembly Bill 219 (2001)
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This Nevada assembly bill (which died in committee in 2001) recognized the struggle of wild horse populations on public rangeland in Nevada and proposed an appropriate level of management and funding to retain the populations. It further would have made the wild horse the Nevada state animal.
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NV - Trusts - Assembly Bill 33 (Pet Trusts)
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Nevada Assembly Bill 33 (2001)
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This Nevada Assembly Bill provides a mechanism for individuals to establish a trust under which a trustee can be appointed to care for the individual's pets after his or her death. The bill includes a provision that gives any amount beyond that which is necessary to care for the pets to the person who would have received the trust property had the trust been terminated and also allows the court to appoint a trustee if the settlor did not do so when he or she created the trust. The bill states that a settlor's expression of intent must be liberally construed in favor of the creation of such a trust.
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NV - Trusts - Validity of trust providing for care of one or more animals
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NV ST 163.0075
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This Nevada statute allows for a trust created for the care of one or more animals that are alive at the time of the settlor's death (note the statute does not state "domestic" or "pet" animal). Such a trust terminates upon the death of all animals covered by the terms of the trust. It further provides that a settlor's expression of intent must be liberally construed in favor of the creation of such a trust.
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NV - Veterinary - Chapter 638. Veterinarians. General Provisions.
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NV ST 638.001 - 170
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These are the state's veterinary practice laws. Among the provisions include licensing requirements, laws concerning the state veterinary board, veterinary records laws, and the laws governing disciplinary actions for impaired or incompetent practitioners.
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NV - Wildlife - Wildlife defined
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NV ST § 501.097
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"Wildlife" means any wild mammal, wild bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, mollusk or crustacean found naturally in a wild state, whether indigenous to Nevada or not and whether raised in captivity or not.
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NV - Wildlife - Wildlife defined (Admin. Code)
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NAC 504.471 (2005)
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This administrative provision restricts the shipment, transportation and exportation of wildlife subject to limited exceptions.
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