2018 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 436 - OFFENSES AGAINST MORALITY .605 Animal control officers and humane agents have powers of peace officers, except power of arrest -- Search warrants -- Execution of search warrants -- Arrest by peace officer.
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436.605 Animal control officers and humane agents have powers of peace officers,
except power of arrest -- Search warrants -- Execution of search warrants -Arrest by peace officer.
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Animal control officers and officers and agents of humane societies who are
employed by, appointed by, or have contracted with a city, county, urban-county,
charter county, or consolidated local government to provide animal sheltering or
animal control services shall have the powers of peace officers, except for the
power of arrest, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the Kentucky Revised
Statutes relating to cruelty, mistreatment, or torture of animals, provided they
possess the qualifications required under KRS 61.300.
When any peace officer, animal control officer, or any officer or agent of any
society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals duly incorporated
under the laws of this Commonwealth who is employed by, appointed by, or has
contracted with a city, county, urban-county, charter county, or consolidated local
government to provide animal sheltering or animal control services makes an oath
before any judge of a District Court that he has reasons to believe or does believe
that an act of cruelty, mistreatment, or torture of animals is being committed in a
building, barn, or other enclosure, the judge shall issue a search warrant directed to
the peace officer, animal control officer, or officer or agent of the society or
association for the prevention of cruelty to animals to search the premises. If a
peace officer finds that an act of cruelty, mistreatment, or torture of animals is being
perpetrated, the offender or offenders shall be immediately arrested by the peace
officer and brought before the court for trial. If an animal control officer or an
officer or agent of a society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals
finds that an act of cruelty, mistreatment, or torture of animals is being perpetrated,
the officer or agent shall summon a peace officer to arrest the offender or offenders
and bring them before the court for trial.
Effective: July 13, 2004
History: Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 29, effective July 13, 2004. -- Amended
1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 444, effective January 1, 1978. -Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 328. -- Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 215, secs. 4
and 7.
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