APPENDIX K 



GENERAL ASSEMBLE Ol NORIH CAROLINA 



SESSION 1989 



H/S D 



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Short Title: Animal Wcliarc Atl/Revisions. (Public) 



Sponsors: 



Referred to: 



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4 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 



5 AN ACT TO REVISE ANIMAL WELFARE AND CONTROL LAWS AND CREATE 



6 THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT ENFORCEMENT FUND. 



7 Whereas, the 1987 Session of the General Assembly authorized the 



8 Legislative Research Commission to study the effectiveness of the Animal Welfare Act; 



9 and 



10 Whereas, the Animal Welfare Act Study Committee was specifically 



11 authorized to consider whether the Act should apply to city and county animal shelters 



12 and whether central records containing information submitted to the Animal Welfare 



13 Section of the State Department of Agriculture should be maintained: and 



14 Whereas, it was the consensus of the members of the Animal Welfare Act 



15 Study Committee that some city and county animal control facilities in the state are 



16 failing to meet the minimum standards established under the Act for the humane care 



17 and treatment of confined animals: Now. therefore. 



18 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 



19 Section I. G.S. I9A 23 reads as rewritten: 



20 "§ I9A-23. Dofinitioiis. For the purposes of this Article, the following terms, when 



21 used in the Article or the rules or orders made pursuant thereto, shall be construed 



22 respectively to mean: 



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