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Second Regular Session
Sixty-sixth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO
INTRODUCED
LLS NO. 08-0462.01 Jery Payne HOUSE BILL 08-1096
House Committees Senate Committees
Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
A BILL FOR AN ACT
101 CONCERNING A PROHIBITION ON THE INTENTIONAL CONFINEMENT OF
102 ANIMALS FOR THE PURPOSE OF HUNTING.
Bill Summary
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
adopted.)
Prohibits a person from offering another person the opportunity to hunt, wound, or take any mammal that is intentionally confined, tied, staked, caged, or otherwise restrained from engaging in normal movement.
Allows exceptions for slaughtering a mammal for purposes of meat, leather, or fur production or humanely euthanizing a mammal for
health, safety, or scientific purposes. Establishes penalties.
1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
2 SECTION 1. Article 6 of title 33, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
4 33-6-132.
Hunting confined animals - prohibition - exceptions
5 - penalties.
(1) IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR A PERSON TO OFFER ANOTHER PERSON THE OPPORTUNITY TO HUNT, WOUND, OR TAKE ANY MAMMALTHAT IS:
8 (a)
INTENTIONALLY CONFINED IN AN ENCLOSURE, REGARDLESS OFTHE SIZE OF THE ENCLOSURE; OR
10 (b) INTENTIONALLY TIED, STAKED, CAGED, OR OTHERWISE 11 RESTRAINED FROM ENGAGING IN NORMAL MOVEMENT.
12 (2)
NOTWITHSTANDING SUBSECTION (1) OF THIS SECTION, APERSON MAY:
14 (a) TAKE A MAMMAL AT A SLAUGHTERING ESTABLISHMENT FORPURPOSES OF MEAT, LEATHER, OR FUR PRODUCTION; OR
16 (b) HUMANELY EUTHANIZE A MAMMAL FOR HEALTH, SAFETY, ORSCIENTIFIC PURPOSES.
18 (3) ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION
a) WITH RESPECT TO BIG GAME OR ENDANGERED SPECIES, ISGUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND, UPON CONVICTION THEREOF, SHALL BEPUNISHED BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS NOR
22 MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. UPON SUCH CONVICTION,THE COMMISSION MAY SUSPEND ANY OR ALL WILDLIFE LICENSE PRIVILEGESOF THE PERSON FOR A MINIMUM OF ONE YEAR TO LIFE.
25 (b) WITH RESPECT TO ALL OTHER MAMMALS, IS GUILTY OF AMISDEMEANOR AND, UPON CONVICTION THEREOF, SHALL BE PUNISHED BYA FINE OF NOT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN ONETHOUSAND DOLLARS, AND AN ASSESSMENT OF TWENTY HUNTING LICENSE3 SUSPENSION POINTS.
4 SECTION 2. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediatepreservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
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