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2016 – Animals in Cruelty Cases

H. 1220: An Act updating the law relating to posting a security for seized animals in cruelty cases

MSPCA Position: Support
Sponsor: Representative Linda Campbell
Status: Signed by the Governor!

This law makes a few, mostly technical, changes in a statute that passed in 2002 that remedied a problem that occurs when animals must be seized as the result of cruelty investigations.

Since 2002, M.G.L. Ch. 272 §104 allows an authority that seizes an animal pursuant to applicable animal cruelty or fighting statutes to request the court to order a security to cover the costs of caring for the animal during the period of time the animal is held until the case is adjudicated.

The reason this law was enacted was to remedy problems that occur when animals must be seized as the result of cruelty investigations:

Many cases have been resolved more quickly and animals placed in permanent homes in a more expeditious and humane manner due to this law. However, there have been some issues that have limited this statute from being as effective a tool as it can be.

These new amendments to this law make the 2002 law stronger by: