§1036. Necessary medical attention
A person owning or responsible for confining or impounding any animal may not fail to supply the animal with necessary medical attention when the animal is or has been suffering from illness, injury, disease, excessive parasitism or malformed or overgrown hoof. Failure to provide necessary medical attention is a Class D crime. [PL 1999, c. 254, §24 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1987, c. 383, §4 (NEW). PL 1999, c. 254, §24 (AMD).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
Subchapter 3: CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
17 §1034. Application for search warrant
17 §1035. Necessary sustenance
17 §1036. Necessary medical attention
17 §1037. Proper shelter; protection from the weather and humanely clean conditions
17 §1037-A. Affirmative defense
17 §1038. Animals abandoned at animal care facilities
17 §1039. Cruel confinement of calves raised for veal and sows during gestation