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2012 California Codes
PEN - Penal Code
PART 1 - OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680]
TITLE 14 - MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
Section 597v
CA Penal Code § 597v (through 2013 Leg Sess) What's This?
No person, peace officer, officer of a humane society, or officer of a pound or animal regulation department of a public agency shall kill any newborn dog or cat whose eyes have not yet opened by any other method than by the use of chloroform vapor or by inoculation of barbiturates.
(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 751, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1999.)
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