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>Subject: *URGENT* Pending California Legislation
>
>Hello to all,
>the state of California is in the process of introducing a new piece of
>legislation. It is a very nasty thing and needs attention from aviculture in
>California. Unforunately I did not hear about it until yesterday. There is a
>hearing scheduled for this Wednesday but several people are attempting to
have
>it postponed for 30 days.
>It has already passed the Assembly and is now on it's way to the Senate
floor.
>
>Californians need to contact their local representatives. To make sure you
get
>the importance of this law, it could give the Calif. Fish and Game Dept. the
>power to make ALL exotic birds taboo!
>
>The site is listed below for the text and references.
>
>Janis Clark
>
>You can go to this site to search for legislature info:
>http://www.sen.ca.gov/www/leginfo/SearchText.html
>
>AB 409 - An act to amend Sections 2116, 2116.5, 2117, 2124, 2125, 2150,
>2150.4, 2155, 2156, 2186, 2187, 2189, 2190, 2192,
>
>by Assemb. Machado
>
>Excerpt:
>
>of laws regulating the importation, transportation, and sheltering of
>restricted live wild animals to mean any animal of the class of Aves (birds),
>class Mammalia (mammals), class Amphibia (frogs, toads, salamanders), class
>Osteichthyes (bony fishes), class Monorhina (lampreys), class Reptilia
>(reptiles), class Crustacea (crayfish), or class Gastropoda (slugs, snails),
>as specified, which is not normally domesticated in this state as determined
>by the Fish and Game Commission. order, family, genus, species,
subspecies, or
>any domesticated or other captive-bred variety, breed, or strain, or any
>hybrid as determined by the commission.
>
>(1) Existing law defines the term "wild animal" for purposes of laws
>regulating the importation, transportation, and sheltering of restricted live
>wild animals to mean any animal of the class of Aves (birds), class Mammalia
>(mammals), class Amphibia (frogs, toads, salamanders), class Osteichthyes
>(bony fishes), class Monorhina (lampreys), class Reptilia (reptiles), class
>Crustacea (crayfish), or class Gastropoda (slugs, snails), as specified,
which
>is not normally domesticated in this state as determined by the Fish and Game
>Commission.
>
>This bill would delete that definition of "wild animal" and, instead, define
>the term "restricted animal" to mean any class, order, family, genus,
species,
>subspecies, or any domesticated or other captive-bred variety, breed, or
>strain, or any hybrid as determined by the commission. The bill would
>authorize the commission, in cooperation with the Department of Food and
>Agriculture and the State Department of Health Services, to designate any
>animal as "restricted" in order to carry out the legislative intent of
>specified provisions pertaining to the protection and welfare of animals in
>the state.
>
>The bill would make it unlawful to import, transport, possess, or release
>alive into this state a restricted animal except as expressly authorized by
>regulations adopted by the commission, in cooperation with the Department of
>Food and Agriculture, and the State Department of Health Services. The bill
>would also make it unlawful to import, transport, possess, or release alive
>any live nonindigenous Atlantic Salmon, or roe thereof, into the Smith River
>Watershed, except as provided. By changing the definition of a crime, the
bill
>would impose a state-mandated local program.
>
>The bill would authorize the commission, in cooperation with the
Department of
>Food and Agriculture and the State Department of Health Services, to add or
>delete any restricted animals from the regulations adopted by the commission
>relating to those animals.
>
>This bill would instead authorize the department to inspect facilities where
>restricted animals are kept or may be kept, and would repeal provisions
>requiring the issuance of a permit upon application to a person desiring to
>import or transport the species. The bill would delete provisions requiring
>any person who transports, receives, or imports into the state, or transports
>within the state, any live wild animal enumerated in or designated
pursuant to
>a specified law to hold that animal in confinement for inspection, as
>prescribed.
>
>The bill would delete provisions defining a "mammal" for purposes of
>provisions governing the importation, transportation, and sheltering of wild
>animals, and would make various related changes.
>
>SEC. 2. Section 2116.5 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:
>
>2116.5. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that individual animals of
>certain animal species are being captured or captively bred for importation
>and resale in California; that some populations of wild those animals are
>being depleted in the wild ; that many animals die in captivity or transit;
>that some keepers of animals lack sufficient knowledge or facilities for the
>proper care of animals; that some animals are a threat to the native wildlife
>or agricultural interests of this state; and that some animals are a
threat to
>public health and safety. It is the intention of the Legislature that the
>importation, transportation, and possession of those animals shall be
>regulated to protect the health and welfare of wild the animals themselves,
>the native wildlife and agricultural interest of this state against damage,
>and to protect the public health and safety in this state.
>
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