Title 20: Internal Security and Public Safety
Chapter 194: Welfare of Animals

§ 3912. Commitment of animals to department of agriculture, food and markets

The commissioner or any officer of the department designated by the commissioner, may file with the court in which a person was convicted of violating the preceding section, a petition for custody of animals in the possession of the person convicted. If the court, on due notice to that person and to any other person owning or having any interest in the animals, finds that the welfare of any of the animals so requires, the court shall order the animals committed to the department of agriculture, food and markets. Animals committed to the department of agriculture, food and markets may be sold or euthanized, or kept in the custody of the department, as the commissioner determines. (Added 1971, No. 27, § 5, eff. March 24, 1971; amended 1989, No. 256 (Adj. Sess.), § 10(a), eff. Jan. 1, 1991.)