Rhode Island § 4-4-9 § 4-4-9. Sale, use, or exposure of diseased animals — Refusal to destroy.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 4-4-9 — § 4-4-9. Sale, use, or exposure of diseased animals — Refusal to destroy.

Rhode Island § 4-4-9

Title 4Animals and Animal Husbandry

Ch. 4-4Animal Diseases in General

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-4-9 (2026).

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§ 4-4-9. Sale, use, or exposure of diseased animals — Refusal to destroy.
A person who willfully sells or offers to sell, uses, exposes, or causes or permits
            to be sold, offered for sale, used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the
            disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous
            to the life or health of human beings or animals, or which is diseased past recovery,
            or who refuses upon demand of the general agent or any special agent of the society
            for the prevention of cruelty to animals humanely to destroy an animal affected with
            any of those diseases shall, for each offense, be punished in the manner

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§ 4-4-9. Sale, use, or exposure of diseased animals — Refusal to destroy.

A person who willfully sells or offers to sell, uses, exposes, or causes or permits to be sold, offered for sale, used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the life or health of human beings or animals, or which is diseased past recovery, or who refuses upon demand of the general agent or any special agent of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals humanely to destroy an animal affected with any of those diseases shall, for each offense, be punished in the manner provided in § 4-1-2.