162.1 - POLICY.
162.1 POLICY.
The purpose of this chapter is:
1. To insure that all dogs and cats handled by boarding kennels,
commercial kennels, commercial breeders, dealers, and public auctions
are provided with humane care and treatment by regulating the
transportation, sale, purchase, housing, care, handling, and
treatment of such animals by persons or organizations engaged in
transporting, buying, or selling them and to provide that all
vertebrate animals consigned to pet shops are provided humane care
and treatment by regulating the transportation, sale, purchase,
housing, care, handling, and treatment of such animals by pet shops.
2. To authorize the sale, trade, or adoption of only those
animals which appear to be free of infectious or communicable
disease.
3. To protect the public from zoonotic disease. Section History: Early Form
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 162.1] Section History: Recent Form
96 Acts, ch 1034, §7