APPENDIX A 



State of North Carolina 

 General Statutes Commission 



9001 Mail Service Center 



RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA 



27699-9001 



INTERIM 



REPORT TO THE 



2003 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA, 



2004 REGULAR SESSION, 



ON 



PUPPY MILLS 



BACKGROUND 



Section 2 of Session Law 2003-208 (Senate Bill 669, Civil Remedy for Animal Cruelty) 

 authorizes the General Statutes Commission (Commission), in consultation with the North 

 Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Department), to study "the need to 

 regulate the unlimited breeding of dogs and cats and the animal cruelty resulting from the 

 operations commonly referred to as 'puppy mills. '" The Commission is further authorized to 

 make an interim report to the 2003 General Assembly, 2004 Regular Session, and to make its 

 final report to the 2005 General Assembly. 



Session Law 2003-208 became law on June 19, 2003, and is attached as Appendix A. 



The General Statutes Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1945. The 

 statutory provisions relating to the Commission are found in Article 2 of Chapter 164 of the 

 General Statutes (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 164-12, et seq.). 



PROCEEDINGS 



The General Statutes Commission discussed the study at its September 5, 2003, October 

 3, 2003, November 7, 2003, December 5, 2003, March 5, 2004, and May 7, 2004, meetings. . 



During this period, the Commission received input and information from the following 

 representatives of the Department: Dr. Carol Woodlief, Field Veterinarian; Dr. David Marshall, 

 State Veterinarian; Dr. Fred Kirkland, Director of Animal Health Programs; and Mr. David S. 

 McLeod, General Counsel. The Commission also heard from Ann Lore, a former member of the 

 Board of Directors of the SPCA of Wake County, a certified animal rescue volunteer, and a 

 member of the local Australian Shepherd rescue group; O. Morton Congleton, Executive 

 Director of the SPCA of Wake County; and Mondy Lamb, also with the SPCA of Wake County. 

 The Commission also received information from Senator Fern Shubert; Cora Tyson, a former 

 animal cruelty investigator in the Greenville area; Andy Romanet, General Counsel for the North 



