BILL NUMBER: AB 1786	CHAPTERED  07/03/00

	CHAPTER   57
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 3, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JUNE 30, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JUNE 22, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   APRIL 24, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 3, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 23, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maddox

                        JANUARY 26, 2000

   An act to amend Section 31754 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to animal shelters.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1786, Maddox.  Animal shelters:  holding of impounded animals.
   Existing law provides, with respect to animal shelters and pounds,
impounding time periods, and care, redemption, and adoption
requirements applicable to specified animals, including the
requirement that, until July 1, 2001, any animal relinquished by the
purported owner be held for 2 full business days, not including the
day of impoundment.  Existing law also provides that, commencing on
that date, this provision shall again become operative, except that
the relinquished animal will be held for only one day, not including
the day of impoundment.
   This bill instead would provide that kittens or puppies
relinquished by the purported owner, or brought in by any other
person, to pounds or shelters may immediately be available for
adoption.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 31754 of the Food and Agricultural Code, as
added by Section 16 of Chapter 752 of the Statutes of 1998, is
amended to read:
   31754.  (a) Except as provided in Section 17006, any animal
relinquished by the purported owner that is of a species impounded by
pounds or shelters shall be held for two full business days, not
including the day of impoundment.  The animal shall be available for
owner redemption for the first day, not including the day of
impoundment, and shall be available for owner redemption or adoption
for the second day.  After the second required day, the animal may be
held longer, killed, or relinquished to a nonprofit, as defined in
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, animal adoption
organization under the same conditions and circumstances provided for
stray dogs and cats in Sections 31108 and 31752.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), kittens or puppies
relinquished by the purported owner, or brought in by any other
person with authority to relinquish them, to pounds or shelters may
immediately be available for adoption.
   (c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 1999.  This
section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2001, and, as of January
1, 2002, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted
before January 1, 2002, deletes or extends the dates on which it
becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 31754 of the Food and Agricultural Code, as added
by Section 16.5 of Chapter 752 of the Statutes of 1998, is amended to
read:
   31754.  (a) Except as provided in Section 17006, any animal
relinquished by the purported owner that is of a species impounded by
pounds or shelters shall be held for the same holding periods, with
the same requirements of care, applicable to stray dogs and cats in
Sections 31108 and 31755, except that the period for owner redemption
shall be one day, not including the day of impoundment, and the
period for owner redemption or adoption shall be the remainder of the
holding period.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a),  kittens or puppies
relinquished by the purported owner, or brought in by any other
person with authority to relinquish them, to pounds or shelters may
immediately be available for adoption.
   (c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2001.