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• <br /> APPENDIX OF MINNESOTA LAWS <br /> Chapter 18 - Pest Control <br /> This chapter empowers counties, cities or towns to appropriate money for the control of <br /> destructive or nuisance animals. Destructive or nuisance animals include such animals as rats, <br /> gophers, mice and other unprotected wild animals. <br /> Chapter 19 - Apiaries <br /> The commissioner may destroy bees found to be a public nuisance after giving notice to the <br /> owner /operator without any remuneration to the owner. <br /> Chapter 31 - Food <br /> This chapter requires the humane slaughter of livestock. Failure to do so results in a <br /> misdemeanor. <br /> Chapter 35 - Animal Health <br /> This chapter provides for the appointment, power and duties of the Board of Animal Health. <br /> The Board is authorized by this chapter to maintain quarantines, issue rabies proclamations <br /> and destroy diseased animals upon inspection. Section 35.69 prohibits unmuzzled dogs from <br /> running at large during period of rabies proclamations. This chapter also provides civil and <br /> criminal penalties for violations of the chapter. <br /> Chapter 343 - Prevention of Cruelty <br /> This chapter defines the purposes and powers of state and local humane societies. The chapter <br /> also defines forms or methods of cruelty to animals including overworking or mistreating <br /> animals, inhumane transportation of animals, docking horses, clipping animals then leaving <br /> them without shelter for the winter months, poisoning animals, and promoting, encouraging or <br /> permitting any kind of animal fighting. A person guilty of cruelty to animals can be found <br /> guilty of a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor. <br /> Chapter 346 - Stray Animals; Companion Animals <br /> Chapter 346 authorizes the poundmaster to keep stray animals and sell such animals as <br /> necessary to pay for damages or fees upon giving notice. The chapter prohibits herding <br /> animals from running at large. Owners will be liable for treble damages for knowingly <br /> permitting such animals to run at large. Section 346.35 establishes the Pet and Companion <br /> Animal Welfare Act. The act generally requires animals to be sufficiently fed, provided clean <br /> water, given adequate shelter and exercise and otherwise properly birds and cared The Act covers <br /> equine (horses, ponies, mules and burros), dogs and cats, p <br /> animals taken as pets. <br /> Chapter 347 - Dogs & Cats <br /> This chapter specifically provides for the destruction of dogs that have chased, injured or <br /> worried livestock or poultry. It also defines dogs acting as a public nuisance and provides for <br /> the destruction of dogs found to be a public nuisance uponhotice, hearing and a judgment <br /> finding the dog to be a public nuisance. Chapter 347 authorizes counties, towns or cities to <br /> issue do g licenses and requires kennels to obtain a license from the Board of Animal Health. <br /> CoO,n(N Lap[ of Mimmu Citta C 19'49 <br /> GACLOSllII . 9 ' A19v14'OF/JINO1Fd�AVNLIIICCO 1PP0 68 <br />