California Penal Code

§ 597z

PEN § 597z Effective Jan 1, 2006Title 14 · Part 1

Statute text

(a)(1) Except as otherwise authorized under any other provision of law, it shall be a crime, punishable as specified in subdivision (b), for any person to sell one or more dogs under eight weeks of age, unless, prior to any physical transfer of the dog or dogs from the seller to the purchaser, the dog or dogs are approved for sale, as evidenced by written documentation from a veterinarian licensed to practice in California.

(2)For the purposes of this section, the sale of a dog or dogs shall not be considered complete, and thereby subject to the requirements and penalties of this section, unless and until the seller physically transfers the dog or dogs to the purchaser.

(b)(1) Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of an infraction or a misdemeanor.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 669, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.