Bill Title: Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that any person who, while lawfully on a vacated property, notices a companion animal housed on that property must notify either the county animal control or the local police department. Makes a violation of this provision a Class B misdemeanor. Authorizes animal control officers and law enforcement officers who are responding to such a notification to enter the vacated property by any reasonable means under the circumstances to remove and render aid to the abandoned animal. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-21 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4977 Detail]

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