Substantial ongoing risk to health and welfare of animals, temporary or permanent injunction
If a state animal welfare official believes someone is putting animals at serious risk, a court can order that person to stop their animal-related business, either for a while or forever. If animals at a licensed facility are found to be in serious pain or very sick, those animals can be taken away and humanely put down, and the facility owner has to pay for that. Before taking the animals, officials have to try to tell the owner first and give them a chance to fix the problem right away.
273.335. Substantial ongoing risk to health and welfare of animals, — animals in pain or diseased taken into for , when, costs to . — When, in the of the or an , any person has been in violation of sections 273.325 to 273.357 so as to pose a substantial ongoing risk to the health and welfare of animals in his custody or so as to pose a substantial ongoing risk that consumers will purchase diseased animals from such person, the may apply to the of the county in which such person resides, and such court may an temporarily or permanently that person from engaging in activities described in section 273.327. If the animals being held in any of the facilities licensed under sections 273.325 to 273.357 are found to be suffering unrelieved pain or or disease, the animals may be taken into custody for at the expense of the licensee. Reasonable effort shall be made to notify the facility of such intent and only upon his refusal or inability to immediately correct the and provide adequate veterinary care shall such be taken. Nothing in sections 273.325 to 273.357 shall be to interfere with scientific research as in 2 of section 273.354.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1992 S.B. 636 § 2 subsec. 6)
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