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CA - Assistance Animal - California Assistance Animal/Guide Dog Laws |
West's Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 600.2, 600.5, West's Ann. Cal. Civ. Code § 54 - 55.32; West's Ann.Cal.Educ.Code § 39839; West's Ann. Cal. Food & Agric. Code § 30850 - 30854; West's Ann. Cal. Health & Safety Code § 121680; Cal. Vehicle Code § 21963; |
The following statutes comprise the state's relevant assistance animal and guide dog laws. |
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CA - Animal Defined - § 599b. Words and phrases; imputation of knowledge to corporation |
West's Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 599b |
This statute defines words, such as "animal," as they are used in Title 14, the Malicious Mischief section, of the California Penal Code. Title 14 is where all of the California Penal Code sections pertaining to animal cruelty are found. |
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CA - Animal Control - Chapter 4. Animal Control |
West's Ann.Cal.Health & Safety Code §§ 121875 - 121945 |
Beyond being domestic pets, dogs provide many services to humans, such as tracking scents and guarding facilities. Below is a collection of California laws, collectively known as the Dog Act, that set out definitions, requirements, and penalties relating to guard dogs, tracking dogs, narcotics dogs, sentry dogs and the people who handle them. |
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CA - Animal Control - Chapter 20.5. Animal Control Officer Standards Act. |
West's Ann.Cal.Health & Safety Code § 26220 - 26230 |
This comprises the Animal Control Officer Standards Act. The law requires the Board of Directors of the California Animal Welfare Association to develop and maintain standards for various classes of CACOs. The standards for education, training, and certification shall be adopted by administrative rule of the board, and shall not be less rigorous than those described in this chapter. The board shall maintain a registry of each application for a certificate of registration under this chapter. |
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CA - Abandonment - § 597s. Abandonment of animals |
West's Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 597s |
This statute makes it a misdemeanor to willfully abandon an animal, but does not apply to the release or rehabilitation and release of native California wildlife pursuant to statute or regulations of the California Department of Fish and Game. |
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CA - Abandonment - § 597f. Failure to care for animals; duty of peace or humane officers; |
West's Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 597f (repealed) |
(Repealed in 2022). Every owner of any animal, who permits the animal to be without proper care and attention, shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. It shall be the duty of any peace officer, officer of the humane society, or officer of a pound or animal regulation department of a public agency, to take possession of the animal so abandoned or neglected and care for the animal until it is redeemed by the owner. Every sick, disabled, infirm, or crippled animal, except a dog or cat, may, if after due search no owner can be found therefor, be killed by the officer. all injured cats and dogs found without their owners in a public place directly to a veterinarian known by the officer or agency to be a veterinarian that ordinarily treats dogs and cats for a determination of whether the animal shall be immediately and humanely destroyed or shall be hospitalized under proper care and given emergency treatment. |
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CA - Abandonment - § 597.2. Equines; abandoned or relinquished; auction and adoption programs |
West's Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 597.2 |
This California statute sets forth the requirements for the sale of equines at a private or public auction and that the minimum price must be above the animal's slaughter price. It also provides that a sale to an individual who buys an equine under the personal use provision shall submit a written statement declaring that the person is adopting the equine for personal use and not for purposes of resale, resale for slaughter, or holding or transporting the equine for slaughter. |
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CA - Abandonment - § 597.1. Failure to care for animals; misdemeanor; powers and duties |
West's Ann. Cal. Penal Code § 597.1 |
Every owner, driver, or keeper of any animal who permits the animal to be in any building, enclosure, lane, street, square, or lot of any city, county, city and county, or judicial district without proper care and attention is guilty of a misdemeanor. The statutes also creates a duty in peace officers, humane society officers, and animal control officers to cause the animal to be killed or rehabilitated and placed in a suitable home on information that the animal is stray or abandoned. |
