2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 4 - Animals and Animal Husbandry
Chapter 4-1 - Cruelty to Animals
Section 4-1-34 - Destruction of racing greyhounds.

Universal Citation: RI Gen L § 4-1-34 (2017)

§ 4-1-34. Destruction of racing greyhounds.

No person shall put to death, within the state, a racing greyhound or a retired racing greyhound except in a humane manner. For the purposes of this section, the phrase in a humane manner means by means of euthanasia by lethal injection, or by any other standard of humane killing that may be established by the American veterinary medicine association.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1990, ch. 465, § 1.)

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