25-3501A. ENFORCEMENT — ENFORCEMENT RESTRICTIONS. (1) Law enforcement agencies and animal care and control agencies that provide law enforcement or animal care and control services to a municipality or county, may enforce the provisions of this chapter in that municipality or county.
(2) Animal care and control officers enforcing this chapter shall comply with the same constitutional and statutory restrictions concerning the execution of police powers imposed on law enforcement officers who enforce this chapter and other criminal laws of the state of Idaho.
(3) In cases where production animals are subject to a violation of section 25-3504, 25-3505 or 25-3511, Idaho Code, law enforcement agencies and animal care and control agencies shall not:
(a) Enforce section 25-3504, 25-3505 or 25-3511, Idaho Code, without first obtaining an inspection and written determination from a department investigator that a violation of one (1) or more of the sections has occurred or is occurring; or
(b) Take a production animal from a production animal facility, pasture, or rangeland for a violation of section 25-3504, 25-3505 or 25-3511, Idaho Code, without first obtaining an inspection and written determination from a department investigator that such action is in the best interest of the animal.
History:
[25-3501A, added 2006, ch. 170, sec. 2, p. 524.]
Structure Idaho Code
Section 25-3501 - ADMINISTRATION.
Section 25-3501A - ENFORCEMENT — ENFORCEMENT RESTRICTIONS.
Section 25-3502 - DEFINITIONS.
Section 25-3503 - POISONING ANIMALS.
Section 25-3504 - COMMITTING CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Section 25-3504A - TORTURING COMPANION ANIMALS.
Section 25-3505 - CARRYING IN A CRUEL MANNER — SEIZURE, EXPENSES, LIEN.
Section 25-3506 - EXHIBITION OF COCKFIGHTS.
Section 25-3507 - EXHIBITION OF DOGFIGHTS.
Section 25-3509 - ARRESTS WITHOUT WARRANTS.
Section 25-3510 - IMPOUNDING WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER.
Section 25-3512 - ABANDONMENT OF ANIMALS LEFT WITH VETERINARIAN.
Section 25-3513 - PROSECUTIONS.
Section 25-3514 - CHAPTER CONSTRUED NOT TO INTERFERE WITH NORMAL OR LEGAL PRACTICES.
Section 25-3515 - CHAPTER CONSTRUED NOT TO INTERFERE WITH GAME LAWS.
Section 25-3516 - HIGH-ALTITUDE DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER PROHIBITED.
Section 25-3518 - BEATING AND HARASSING ANIMALS.
Section 25-3519 - AUTHORITY TO ENTER PREMISES AND EXAMINE ANIMALS.
Section 25-3520 - AUTHORITY TO PROMULGATE RULES.
Section 25-3520A - PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS — TERMINATION OF RIGHTS.