Unconditional Love Foundation

Summary: Prohibits selling a bird underthree weeks old selling a rabbit under two months old dying, staining or otherwise altering the natural coloring of a bird or rabbit. Exception: Commercial breeders or distributors whose facilities are adequately equipped for the care of young birds or rabbits.

Penalty: Class B Misdemeanor. Knowing or intentional violation: Class D Felony (15-2.1-21-9) Maximum $25,000 fine for each day of violation plus payment to Board for costs incurred from prosecution. These penalties and costs can be recovered in a civil action and an injunction for continuing violations can be obtained (15-2.1-21-14).

Summary: Prohibits importing or exporting for sale any dog under 8 weeks old unless it is transported with its dam (mother). Exception: Research facilities licensed under the federal Laboratory Animals Welfare Act (7 USC 2131 et seq.).

Penalty: Knowing or intentional violation: Class D Felony (15-2.1-21-9) Maximum $25,000 fine for each day of violation plus payment to Board for costs incurred from prosecution. These penalties and costs can be recovered in a civil action and an injunction for continuing violations can be obtained (15-2.1-21-14).

Summary: Requires anyone who sells a dog to a laboratory to (for one year after the sale): maintain the bill of sale for the dog; and allow a law enforcement officer to inspect the bill of sale Applies to the sale of dogs to research laboratories and any laboratory that uses animals for the production of medicines or other products (15-5-18-1).

Penalty: If an individual is unable to show a valid bill of sale for a dog, a laboratory may not purchase the dog, and there is a rebuttable presumption that the dog is stolen (15-5-18-4).

Summary: Requires anyone who sells a dog to a laboratory to show a valid bill of sale for the dog to the laboratory buyer. The bill of sale must be from: a breeder or kennel animal control facility private individual. Applies to the sale of dogs to research laboratories and any laboratory that uses animals for the production of medicines or other products (15-5-18-1).

Penalty: If an individual is unable to show a valid bill of sale for a dog, a laboratory may not purchase the dog, and there is a rebuttable presumption that the dog is stolen (15-5-18-4).

Summary: Allows anyone to kill a dog if he observes the dog in the act of killing or injuring livestock and he has consent of the owner/lessor of the real property where the dog is found.

Summary: Prohibits knowingly or intentionally striking, tormenting, injuring or mistreating a law enforcement animal, or interfering with such an animal when the animal is assisting a law enforcement officer in his/her duties. Exception: Accused engaged in reasonable act of training, handling, or discipline and acted as an employee or agent of a law enforcement agency.

Penalty: Class A Misdemeanor (35-50-3-2) maximum one year confinement; maximum $5,000 fine In addition, court may order restitution to owner for vet bills, and replacement costs of the animal if it is disabled or killed.

Summary: Prohibits cruelty to an animal: knowingly or intentionally beating a vertebrate animal Increased penalty applies if: the offender has a prior unrelated conviction under this section, or the offender knowingly or intentionally tortures or mutilates the animal Exceptions: humane society, animal control or animal shelter employee who euthanizes an injured, sick, homeless or unwanted domestic animal if in accordance with the facility's euthanasia guidelines reasonable belief that the conduct was necessary to prevent injury to a person reasonable belief that the conduct was necessary to protect the property of the accused from destruction or substantial damage reasonable belief that the conduct was necessary to prevent seriously injured vertebrate animal from prolonged suffering engaged in a reasonable and recognized act of training, handling, or disciplining the vertebrate animal Note: See 35-46-3-5 above for further exceptions.

Penalty: Animal Cruelty: Class A Misdemeanor (35-50-3-2) maximum one year confinement; maximum $5,000 fine. Torture or mutilation: Class D felony Prior conviction: Class D felony. (35-50-2-7) Class D felony 1.5 yrs confinement, plus or minus up to one year depending on mitigating or aggravating circumstances and/or maximum $10,000 fine. Any law enforcement officer or other person with authority to impound animals who has probable cause can take custody of the animal involved.

Summary: Prohibits knowingly or intentionally removing vocal cords of a trained attack dog. Exception: Reasonable belief that conduct necessary to prevent seriously injured dog from prolonged injury.

Penalty: Class A Misdemeanor

Summary: Animal as used in Chapter 3 (offenses relating to animals) does not include a human being.

Summary: Prohibits recklessly, knowingly or intentionally abandoning or neglecting a vertebrate animal in one's custody.

Penalty: Class B Misdemeanor (35-50-3-3) maximum 180 days confinement; maximum $1,000 fine. Any law enforcement officer or other person with authority to impound animals who has probable cause can take custody of the animal involved.

Summary: Prohibits knowingly or intentionally hindering or obstructing (while they are detecting, disarming or destroying a destructive device): law enforcement officer fire official emergency management official animal trained to detect destructive devices robot or mechanical device designed or used by law enforcement, fire or emergency management officials

Penalty: Class B felony