California § 597.2. 597.2. (Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 7, Sec. 20.)

California Statutes

§ 597.2. — 597.2. (Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 7, Sec. 20.)

California·Code PEN Penal Code - PEN·Title 14.·Part 1. TITLE 14. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF

(a)It shall be the duty of an officer of an animal shelter, a humane society, or an animal regulation department of a public agency to assist in a case involving the abandonment or voluntary relinquishment of an equine by the equine’s owner. This section does not require an animal shelter, a humane society, or an animal regulation department of a public agency to take actual possession of the equine.

(b)If an animal shelter, a humane society, or an animal regulation department of a public agency sells an equine at a private or public auction or sale, it shall set the minimum bid for the sale of the equine at a price above the current slaughter price of the equine.

(c)

(1)This section does not prohibit an animal shelter, a humane society, or an animal regulation departm

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(a)
It shall be the duty of an officer of an animal shelter, a humane society, or an animal regulation department of a public agency to assist in a case involving the abandonment or voluntary relinquishment of an equine by the equine’s owner. This section does not require an animal shelter, a
humane society, or an
animal regulation department of a public agency to take actual possession of the equine.
(b)
If an animal shelter, a humane society, or an animal regulation department of a public agency sells an equine at a private or public auction or sale, it shall set the minimum bid for the sale of the equine at a price above the current slaughter price of the equine.
(c)
(1)
This section does not prohibit
an animal shelter, a humane society, or an animal regulation department of a public agency from placing an equine through an adoption program at an adoption fee that may be set below current slaughter price.
(2)
A person adopting an equine under paragraph (1) 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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