Rhode Island § 4-4-8 § 4-4-8. Exposure of diseased animals to contact with healthy animals.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 4-4-8 — § 4-4-8. Exposure of diseased animals to contact with healthy animals.

Rhode Island § 4-4-8

Title 4Animals and Animal Husbandry

Ch. 4-4Animal Diseases in General

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Bluebook

R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-4-8 (2026).

Text

§ 4-4-8. Exposure of diseased animals to contact with healthy animals.
No person having the care or custody of any animal having any one of the diseases
            mentioned in this chapter or chapter 5 of this title, shall, knowing the animal to
            have any of the diseases mentioned in this chapter or chapter 5 of this title, sell
            or exchange, or permit the removal, use or driving of that animal upon any public
            highway, or the exposure of that animal to contact with any other healthy animal of
            the same kind, except by permission of the director of environmental management. Any
            person so doing is deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on being convicted shall be
   

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§ 4-4-8. Exposure of diseased animals to contact with healthy animals.

No person having the care or custody of any animal having any one of the diseases mentioned in this chapter or chapter 5 of this title, shall, knowing the animal to have any of the diseases mentioned in this chapter or chapter 5 of this title, sell or exchange, or permit the removal, use or driving of that animal upon any public highway, or the exposure of that animal to contact with any other healthy animal of the same kind, except by permission of the director of environmental management. Any person so doing is deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on being convicted shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 99, § 16; G.L. 1909, ch. 120, § 22; G.L. 1923, ch. 241, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 207, § 15; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 160; G.L. 1956, § 4-4-8.