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Code · Michigan · Chapter 287 — Animal Industry

287.338b Animal control shelter or animal protection shelter; use of ICHAT to determine prior criminal history for animal abuse offense; subsection (1) inapplicable to pe

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287.338b Animal control shelter or animal protection shelter; use of ICHAT to determine prior criminal history for animal abuse offense; subsection
(1)inapplicable to pet shop; section to be referred to as "Logan's law"; "animal" defined.
Sec. 8b.
(1)Before allowing an individual to adopt an animal, an animal control shelter or animal protection shelter may conduct a search using ICHAT to determine whether that individual has a prior criminal history for an animal abuse offense.
(2)An animal control shelter or animal protection shelter does not violate this act if the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter searches for an individual on ICHAT allowed under subsection
(1)and the search fails to disclose that the individual has a prior criminal history for an animal abuse offense.
(3)Subsection
(1)does not apply to a pet shop that allows an animal protection shelter to use pet shop resources, including, but not limited to, the pet shop's premises, facilities, employees, equipment, and advertising for pet adoptions, or to a pet shop that works with an animal protection shelter but does not perform adoptions except as an agent of the animal protection shelter. A pet shop described in this subsection is not an animal protection shelter and is not liable for any pet adoptions performed by an animal protection shelter.
(4)This section may be referred to as "Logan's law".
(5)For purposes of this section and section 8c only, "animal" means a vertebrate other than a human being.
History: Add. 2016, Act 393 , Eff. Mar. 29, 2017 ;-- Am. 2017, Act 84 , Imd. Eff. July 12, 2017
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