HB551 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Russell BedsoleRepresentative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Animals, tethering of a dog, to establish protocal for tethering a dog and the requirement for the dogs care under certain conditions, violation is crime of animal cruelty

Description

This bill would prohibit an individual from tethering a dog to a stationary object for a certain period of time and under certain circumstances.

This bill would provide for requirements of a tether when used properly.

This bill would provide for certain times and temperatures in which tethering a dog is prohibited.

This bill would also provide that violation of this act constitutes the crime of cruelty to animals and would provide for exceptions.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Animals