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2017 Code of Virginia
Title 3.2 - Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food
Chapter 65 - Comprehensive Animal Care
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 3.2-6500. Definitions
- § 3.2-6501. Regulations and guidelines
- § 3.2-6502. State Veterinarian's power to inspect premises where animals are kept; investigations and search warrants
Article 2. Animal Welfare
- § 3.2-6503. Care of companion animals by owner; penalty
- § 3.2-6503.1. Care of agricultural animals by owner; penalty
- § 3.2-6504. Abandonment of animal; penalty
- § 3.2-6504.1. Civil immunity; forcible entry of motor vehicle to remove unattended companion animal
- § 3.2-6505. Disposal of animals by means of decompression chamber and use of gas chamber for companion animals prohibited
- § 3.2-6506. Exceptions regarding veterinarians
- § 3.2-6507. Injured or sick animal; action by veterinarian
Article 2.1. Commercial Dog Breeding Operations
- § 3.2-6507.1. Business license required
- § 3.2-6507.2. Commercial dog breeding; requirements
- § 3.2-6507.3. Right of entry
- § 3.2-6507.4. Concurrent operation of releasing agency prohibited
- § 3.2-6507.5. Penalty
- § 3.2-6507.6. Duty of attorneys for the Commonwealth
Article 3. Transportation and Sale of Animals
- § 3.2-6508. Transporting animals; requirements; penalty
- § 3.2-6508.1. Sale of dogs or cats prohibited in certain places
- § 3.2-6509. Misrepresentation of animal's condition; penalties
- § 3.2-6510. Sale of unweaned or certain immature animals prohibited, vaccinations required for dogs and cats; penalty
- § 3.2-6511. Failure of dealer or pet shop to provide adequate care; penalty
- § 3.2-6511.1. Pet shops; procurement of dogs; penalty
- § 3.2-6512. Sale without pet dealer's animal history certificate violation of Consumer Protection Act; contents of certificate
- § 3.2-6513. Inclusion of false or misleading statements in certificate violation of Consumer Protection Act
- § 3.2-6514. Consumer remedies for receipt of diseased animal upon certification by veterinarian
- § 3.2-6515. Written notice of consumer remedies required to be supplied by pet dealers
- § 3.2-6516. Failure of pet dealer to effect registration after promise; violation of Consumer Protection Act; remedies; veterinary certification; finding of intestinal parasites; illness subsequent to sale
- § 3.2-6517. Remedies cumulative
Article 4. Boarding Establishments and Groomers
- § 3.2-6518. Boarding establishments and groomers; veterinary care requirements; consumer notification; penalty
- § 3.2-6519. Written notice of consumer remedies required to be supplied by boarding establishments; penalty
- § 3.2-6520. Procedure for animals left unclaimed with veterinarian or boarding establishment after public notice; lien; sale
Article 5. Rabies Control and Licensing of Dogs and Cats
- § 3.2-6521. Rabies inoculation of companion animals; availability of certificate; rabies clinics
- § 3.2-6522. Rabid animals
- § 3.2-6523. Inoculation for rabies at public or private animal shelters
- § 3.2-6524. Unlicensed dogs prohibited; ordinances for licensing cats
- § 3.2-6525. Regulations to prevent spread of rabies
- § 3.2-6526. What dog or cat license shall consist of
- § 3.2-6527. How to obtain license
- § 3.2-6528. Amount of license tax
- § 3.2-6529. Veterinarians to provide treasurer with rabies certificate information; civil penalty
- § 3.2-6530. When license tax payable
- § 3.2-6531. Displaying receipts; dogs to wear tags
- § 3.2-6532. Duplicate license tags
- § 3.2-6533. Effect of dog or cat not wearing a license tag as evidence
- § 3.2-6534. Disposition of funds
- § 3.2-6535. Supplemental funds
- § 3.2-6536. Payment of license tax subsequent to summons
Article 6. Authority of Local Governing Bodies
- § 3.2-6537. Ordinances; penalties
- § 3.2-6538. Governing body of any locality may prohibit dogs from running at large
- § 3.2-6539. Ordinance requiring dogs to be kept on leash
- § 3.2-6540. Control of dangerous dogs; penalties
- § 3.2-6540.1. Vicious dogs; penalties
- § 3.2-6541. Authority to prohibit training of attack dogs
- § 3.2-6542. Establishment of Dangerous Dog Registry
- § 3.2-6543. Governing body of any locality may adopt certain ordinances
- § 3.2-6544. Regulation of keeping of animals and fowl
- § 3.2-6545. Regulation of sale of animals procured from animal shelters
- § 3.2-6546. County or city public animal shelters; confinement and disposition of animals; affiliation with foster care providers; penalties; injunctive relief
- § 3.2-6547. Acceptance of animals for research or experimentation; prohibition
- § 3.2-6548. Private animal shelters; confinement and disposition of animals; affiliation with foster care providers; penalties; injunctive relief
- § 3.2-6549. Releasing agencies other than public or private animal shelters; confinement and disposition of companion animals; recordkeeping; affiliation with foster care providers; penalties
- § 3.2-6550. Requirements for foster homes; penalty
- § 3.2-6551. Notification by individuals finding companion animals; penalty
- § 3.2-6552. Dogs killing, injuring, or chasing livestock or poultry
- § 3.2-6553. Compensation for livestock and poultry killed by dogs
- § 3.2-6554. Disposal of dead companion animals
Article 7. Animal Control Officers and Humane Investigators
- § 3.2-6555. Position of animal control officer created
- § 3.2-6556. Training of animal control officers
- § 3.2-6557. Animal control officers and humane investigators; limitations; records; penalties
- § 3.2-6558. Humane investigators; qualifications; appointment; term
- § 3.2-6559. Powers and duties of humane investigators
- § 3.2-6560. Expenses of humane investigators
- § 3.2-6561. Revocation of appointment of humane investigators
- § 3.2-6562. Capturing, confining, and euthanizing companion animals by animal control officers; approval of drugs used
- § 3.2-6562.1. Rabies exposure; local authority and responsibility plan
- § 3.2-6563. When animals to be euthanized; procedure
Article 8. Search, Seizure, Impounding, and Enforcement
- § 3.2-6564. Complaint of suspected violation; investigation
- § 3.2-6565. Impoundment; expenses; lien; disposition of animal
- § 3.2-6566. Preventing cruelty to animals; interference; penalty
- § 3.2-6567. Enforcement authority
- § 3.2-6568. Power of search for violations of statutes against cruelty to animals
- § 3.2-6569. Seizure and impoundment of animals; notice and hearing; disposition of animal; disposition of proceeds upon sale
Article 9. Cruelty to Animals
- § 3.2-6570. Cruelty to animals; penalty
- § 3.2-6570.1. Sale of animals after cruelty or neglect conviction; penalty
- § 3.2-6571. Animal fighting; penalty
- § 3.2-6572. Reserved
- § 3.2-6573. Shooting birds for amusement, and renting premises for such purposes; penalty
Article 10. Mandatory Sterilization of Dogs and Cats Adopted from Releasing Agencies
- § 3.2-6574. Sterilization of adopted dogs and cats; enforcement; civil penalty
- § 3.2-6575. Sterilization agreement
- § 3.2-6576. Sterilization confirmation; civil penalty
- § 3.2-6577. Notification concerning lost, stolen or dead dogs or cats; civil penalty
- § 3.2-6578. Exemptions
- § 3.2-6579. Releasing agency; fees and deposits
- § 3.2-6580. Civil penalties
Article 11. Hybrid Canines
- § 3.2-6581. Definitions
- § 3.2-6582. Hybrid canine ordinance; penalty
- § 3.2-6583. Hybrid canines killing, injuring or chasing livestock
- § 3.2-6584. Compensation for livestock and poultry killed by hybrid canines
Article 12. Miscellaneous Provisions
- § 3.2-6585. Dogs and cats deemed personal property; rights relating thereto
- § 3.2-6586. Dog injuring or killing other companion animals
- § 3.2-6587. Unlawful acts; penalties
- § 3.2-6588. Intentional interference with a guide or leader dog; penalty
- § 3.2-6589. Selling garments containing dog or cat fur prohibited; penalty
- § 3.2-6590. Jurisdiction of general district courts; right of appeal
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