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| Title | Citation | Alternate Citation | Summary | Type |
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| NM - Pigs, feral - § 77-18-6. Feral hogs; prohibition; penalty | NMSA 1978, § 77-18-6 | NM ST § 77-18-6 | This New Mexico law prohibits the importation, transportation, holding for breeding, releasing, or selling of a sell a live feral hog or the operation of a commercial feral hog hunting enterprise. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for a definite term of less than one year or both. | Statute |
| Newton County Wildlife Ass'n v. U.S. Forest Service | 113 F.3d 110 (8th Cir. 1997) | 44 ERC 201728, Envtl. L. Rep. 20, 020 | Newton County Wildlife Association sued the United States Forest Service seeking judicial review of four timber sales in the Ozark National Forest. The Wildlife Association filed sequential motions to preliminarily enjoin the sales as violative of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (WSRA) and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). The district court1 separately denied each motion, and the Wildlife Association separately appealed those orders. The Court held that because the Forest Service may limit WSRA plans to lands lying within designated river segments, failure to timely prepare the Plans cannot be a basis for enjoining timber sales on lands lying outside any designated area. With respect to the MBTA, the Court held that "it would stretch this 1918 statute far beyond the bounds of reason to construe it as an absolute criminal prohibition on conduct, such as timber harvesting, that indirectly results in the death of migratory birds." Therefore, the Court affirmed the district court's denial of injunctive relief. | Case |
| VT - Domestic Violence - § 1103. Requests for relief. | 15 V.S.A. § 1103 | VT ST T. 15 § 1103 | Any family or household member may seek relief from abuse by another family or household member on behalf of him- or herself or his or her children by filing a complaint under this chapter. Included among the relief that the court can grant is an order concerning the possession, care, and control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held as a pet by either party or a minor child residing in the household in section (c)(2)(G). | Statute |
| TN - Nashville - Title 8 - ANIMALS | Title 8 - ANIMALS |
These are the animal ordinances for the Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. These laws include dog laws (including vicious dogs), wildlife and animal control regulations. |
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| In the Matters of: Kyle C. Mueller, et al | 1991 WL 288705 (N.O.A.A.) | 6 O.R.W. 345 (1991) |
The question in this case was whether respondents, members of a marine mammal conservation group, violated the MMPA by interfering with the authorized capture of six dolphins. As result of this case, which was a civil penalty proceeding, only one of the respondents was found guilty of taking under the MMPA. The court found that the respondent's actions, although taken with noble intentions, endangered the lives of the dolphins, was improper, and dangerous. He was assessed a fine in the amount of $2,000. |
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| TX - Ordinances - § 1.08. Preemption | V. T. C. A., Penal Code § 1.08 | TX PENAL § 1.08 | This law provides for preemption of state criminal laws over the laws enacted by governmental subdivisions or agencies. | Statute |
| Ivey v. Hamlin (Unpublished) | 2002 WL 1254444 (Tenn.Ct.App.)(Not reproted in S.W.3rd) |
This is an action for damages for the deliberate killing of a dog by a Deputy Sheriff that was alleging terrorizing the neighborhood. In finding for defendant-officer, the court noted that the consensus among the courts is that a vicious dog is a public nuisance and that governments and their agents have broad power to protect the public from these animals. The court thus found the officer acted reasonably under the circumstances and had a qualified immunity defense. |
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| IL - Education - Act 112. Dissection Alternatives Act | 105 ILCS 112/1 - 112/99 | IL ST CH 105 § 112/1 - 112/99 | This comprises Illinois' Dissection Alternatives Act. The act requires the State Board of Education to make guidelines that give notice to parents and students on which courses ordinarily involve dissection of animals and whether or not alternative projects for learning are available. A school may excuse a student enrolled in a course in which students are ordinarily expected to perform, participate in, or observe dissection who objects for any reason to performing, participating in, or observing that dissection and instead allow the student to complete an alternative project. The act defines "student" as those pupils at a public or private elementary or secondary school in Illinois. No student is to be penalized or discriminated against for refusing to perform, participate in, or observe dissection. | Statute |
| WA - Beavers - 77.32.585. Release of wild beavers | West's RCWA 77.32.585 | WA ST 77.32.585 | This Washington law states that the department shall permit the release of wild beavers on public and private lands with agreement from the property owner under specified conditions. | Statute |
| PA - Dog - § 550. General immunity from noise | 3 P.S. § 550 | PA ST 3 P.S. § 550 | This Pennsylvania statute provides that all owners and operators of dog training and special retriever training areas licensed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission shall be exempt and immune from any civil action or criminal prosecution in any manner relating to noise provided they were and remain in compliance with any applicable noise control laws or ordinances at the time the permit for establishment of the training area was authorized. | Statute |