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2021 Ohio Revised Code
Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences
Chapter 959 | Offenses Relating to Domestic Animals
Section 959.06 | Destruction of Domestic Animals.
Universal Citation: Ohio Rev Code § 959.06 (2021)
Effective: January 1, 1981
Latest Legislation: House Bill 854 - 113th General Assembly
(A) No person shall destroy any domestic animal by the use of a high altitude decompression chamber or by any method other than a method that immediately and painlessly renders the domestic animal initially unconscious and subsequently dead.
(B) This section does not apply to or prohibit the slaughtering of livestock under Chapter 945. of the Revised Code, or the taking of any wild animal, as defined in section 1531.01 of the Revised Code, when taken in accordance with Chapter 1533. of the Revised Code.
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