House Journal: Page 1417: Tuesday, April 11, 2000
2 b. A licensed veterinarian practicing veterinary
3 medicine as provided in chapter 169.
4 c. A person carrying out a practice that is
5 consistent with animal husbandry practices.
6 d. A person acting in order to carry out another
7 provision of law which allows the conduct.
8 e. A person taking, hunting, trapping, or fishing
9 for a wild animal as provided in chapter 481A.
10 f. A person acting to protect the person's
11 property from a wild animal as defined in section
12 481A.1.
13 g. A person acting to protect a person from injury
14 or death caused by a wild animal as defined in section
15 481A.1.
16 h. A person reasonably acting to protect the
17 person's property from damage caused by an unconfined
18 animal.
19 i. A person reasonably acting to protect a person
20 from injury or death caused by an unconfined animal.
21 j. A local authority reasonably acting to destroy
22 an animal, if at the time of the destruction, the
23 owner of the animal is absent or unable to care for
24 the animal, and the animal is permanently distressed
25 by disease or injury to a degree that would result in
26 severe and prolonged suffering.
27 k. An institution, as defined in section 145B.1,
28 or a research facility, as defined in section 162.2,
29 provided that the institution or research facility
30 performs functions within the scope of accepted
31 practices and disciplines associated with the
32 institution or research facility.
33 3. A person guilty of animal torture is guilty of
34 an aggravated misdemeanor for the first offense and
35 guilty of a class "D" felony for a second or
36 subsequent offense. If a person is guilty of animal
37 torture, as provided in this subsection, the
38 sentencing order shall provide that the person
39 participate in counseling according to terms ordered
40 by the court."
41 2. Title page, line 1, by striking the words
42 "persons and".
Speaker Siegrist in the chair at 7:12 p.m.
Davis of Wapello asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-8823, to the Senate amendment H-8746,
filed by him, Kreiman of Davis, Mascher of Johnson, Parmenter of
Story, Reynolds of Van Buren and Cormack of Webster from the floor.
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