Bill Text: MI HB4355 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Animals; animal shelters; ICHAT search by animal control shelters and animal protection shelters when allowing an animal adoption; require. Amends 1969 PA 287 (MCL 287.331 - 287.340) by adding sec. 8b.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-31 - Assigned Pa 393'16 [HB4355 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB4355-Chaptered.html
Act No. 393
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
December 28, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 28, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 29, 2017
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Reps. Muxlow, Bizon, Inman, Pagel and Santana
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4355
AN ACT to amend 1969 PA 287, entitled “An act to regulate pet shops, animal control shelters, and animal protection shelters; to establish uniform procedures and minimum requirements for adoption of dogs, cats, and ferrets; and to prescribe penalties and civil fines and to provide remedies,” (MCL 287.331 to 287.340) by adding section 8b.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 8b. (1) Before allowing an individual to adopt an animal, an animal control shelter or animal protection shelter may conduct a search using ICHAT to determine whether that individual has a prior criminal history for an animal abuse offense.
(2) An animal control shelter or animal protection shelter does not violate this act if the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter searches for an individual on ICHAT allowed under subsection (1) and the search fails to disclose that the individual has a prior criminal history for an animal abuse offense.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a pet shop that allows an animal protection shelter to use pet shop resources, including, but not limited to, the pet shop’s premises, facilities, employees, equipment, and advertising for pet adoptions, or to a pet shop that works with an animal protection shelter but does not perform adoptions except as an agent of the animal protection shelter. A pet shop described in this subsection is not an animal protection shelter and is not liable for any pet adoptions performed by an animal protection shelter.
(4) This section may be referred to as “Logan’s law”.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
