Animal Victory: Governor Brown Passes Law Banning Roadside Animal Sales
Golden state animals rejoice! Governor Brown signed SB 917 into law yesterday which prohibits the roadside sale of animals plus increases the penalties for animal neglect.
"SB 917 is the first animal protection bill to cross Governor Brown’s desk,” says Jill Buckley, Senior Director of Government Relations for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). “We applaud him for helping safeguard animals sold in public parking lots and roadside venues—puppies, kittens and other pets will no longer be left to suffer in unsanitary and overcrowded cages without proper food and water.”
Effective January 2012, the new law makes selling a live animal on any street, highway, public right-of-way, parking lot, carnival or boardwalk illegal.
Fines and the maximum jail sentence for convicts of misdemeanor animal neglect will also be increased as part of the law.
Sorry, Venice Beach tourists. Come 2012 red wagons brimming with puppies will be no more.
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