ANIMAL CARE AND FACILITIES LICENSING AND REGULATION
- Section 273.325 - Citation of law - definitions
- Section 273.327 - License annually required to operate animal boarding facilities, pet shops, pounds, dealers and commercial breeders - fees, exemption from fees for certain licensees
- Section 273.329 - Director may refuse to license or may revoke licenses, grounds - operation without license, penalty
- Section 273.331 - Inspection required for license - state veterinarian's duties and authority - provisional license issued until inspection - inspections required annually or on complaint
- Section 273.333 - Investigations conducted, when - violations, administrative procedure - order for remedial action by circuit courts - administrative penalties, amount - penalties, deposit in general revenue - appeals, procedure
- Section 273.335 - Substantial ongoing risk to health and welfare of animals, temporary or permanent injunction - animals in pain or diseased taken into custody for euthanasia, when, costs to licensee
- Section 273.338 - Failure of reinspections after original violation, penalty, amount - payment of penalty required before license renewal
- Section 273.340 - Dealers to purchase only from licensed or exempt persons - violation, penalties
- Section 273.342 - Exemption from licensing requirements, certain persons - registration required annually, content, no fee
- Section 273.344 - Standards and regulations for licensed persons and facilities - director to promulgate rules
- Section 273.345 - Canine Cruelty Prevention Act - citation of law - purpose - required care - definitions - veterinary records - space requirements - severability clause
- Section 273.346 - Director to develop rules for health and veterinary care for animals in custody and facilities of licensees - records to be kept - pounds, major construction not to be required
- Section 273.347 - Court action for enforcement, when - crime of canine cruelty, penalty
- Section 273.348 - Facilities to be open for inspection - quarantine of animals, by state veterinarian, when - quarantine removed, when - removal of animals under quarantine prohibited - disease treatment procedures, duties of state veterinarian - violations, penalty
- Section 273.350 - Director to develop rules to include safety standards for motor vehicles transporting live animals - define exotic animals and their care - wildlife not to be included - shipping diseased animals, penalty
- Section 273.352 - Advisory committee, appointment, qualifications - duties to assist in establishing rules - not to receive compensation or expenses - rulemaking procedure
- Section 273.354 - Laws not applicable to hospitals or boarding facility under supervision of veterinarians or research
- Section 273.357 - Animal care reserve fund created - all license fees to be deposited in fund - purpose and uses - lapse to general revenue, prohibited
- Section 273.359 - Stacked cages without impervious barrier prohibited, penalty