Bill Text: OR HB3408 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the placement of forfeited animals.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3408 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3408-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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LC 3460

                         House Bill 3408

Sponsored by Representative KENY-GUYER; Representatives GOMBERG,
  WITT (at the request of Oregon Humane Society)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Deletes statutory preference for placing forfeited animal with
person having prior contact with animal.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the placement of forfeited animals; creating new
  provisions; and amending ORS 167.348.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 167.348 is amended to read:
  167.348. (1) If an animal is forfeited according to the
provisions of ORS 167.347 or 167.350, the agency to which the
animal was forfeited may place the animal with a new owner.
 { - The agency shall give placement preference to any person or
persons who had prior contact with the animal, including but not
limited to family members and friends of the former owner whom
the agency determines are capable of providing necessary,
adequate and appropriate levels of care for the animal. - }  As a
condition of placement, the agency shall require the new owner to
execute an agreement to provide minimum care to the animal. The
agreement must indicate that allowing the former owner to possess
the animal constitutes a crime.
  (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the agency
may not place the animal with any person who resides with the
former owner.
  SECTION 2.  { + The amendments to ORS 167.348 by section 1 of
this 2013 Act apply to a placement made on or after the effective
date of this 2013 Act of an animal forfeited before, on or after
the effective date of this 2013 Act. + }
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