Michigan Compiled Laws 328-1931-ix Chapter IX Animals (750.49...750.70)

• Section 750.49 Animal; Definition; Fighting, Baiting, Or Shooting; Prohibited Conduct; Violation As Felony; Costs; Dog Trained Or Used For Fighting Or Offspring Of Dog Trained Or Used For Fighting; Prohibited Conduct; Exceptions; Confiscation Of Dog; Award Of Dog To Animal Welfare Agency; Euthanasia; Expenses; Forfeiture Of Animals, Equipment, Devices, And Money; Disposition Of Money Seized; Additional Exceptions.
  (1) As used in this section, "animal" means a vertebrate other than a human. (2) A person shall not knowingly do any of the...
• Section 750.50 Definitions; Charge Or Custody Of Animal; Prohibited Conduct; Forfeiture Of Animal; Violation As Misdemeanor Or Felony; Penalty; Psychiatric Or Psychological Counseling; Other Violation Of Law Arising Out Of Same Transaction; Consecutive Terms; Order To Pay Costs; Order Prohibiting Owning Or Possessing Animal For Certain Period Of Time; Violation Of Subsection (9); Revocation Of Probation; Certain Conduct Not Prohibited By Section.
  (1) As used in this section and section 50b: (a) "Adequate care" means the provision of sufficient food, water, shelter, sanitary conditions, exercise, and...
• Section 750.50a Service Animal; Prohibited Conduct By Individual; Violation As Misdemeanor; Rebuttable Presumption That Conduct Initiated Or Continued Maliciously; Conviction Or Sentence Under Other Applicable Law; Definitions.
  (1) An individual shall not do either of the following: (a) Willfully and maliciously assault, beat, harass, injure, or attempt to assault, beat, harass,...
• Section 750.50b Animal Defined; Prohibited Acts; Violation; Penalty; Exceptions.
  (1) As used in this section, "animal" means any vertebrate other than a human being. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a...
• Section 750.50c Police Dog Or Police Horse; Definitions; Violation As Felony Or Misdemeanor; Penalty; Other Violations.
  (1) As used in this section: (a) "Dog handler" means a peace officer who has successfully completed training in the handling of a police...
• Section 750.51 Animals; Confining On Railroad Cars.
  Confining animals on railroad cars—No railroad company, in the carrying or transportation of animals, shall permit the same to be confined in cars for...
• Section 750.52 Duty Of Public Officers.
  750.52 Duty of public officers. Sec. 52. Duty of public officers—It shall also be the duty of all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, policemen and public...
• Section 750.53 Arrest Of Persons; Seizure Of Animals.
  Arrest of persons and seizure of animals—Persons found violating any of the provisions of the preceding sections of this chapter may be arrested and...
• Section 750.54 Search Warrants.
  Search warrant—When complaint is made, on oath or affirmation, to any magistrate authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases, that the complainant believes that...
• Section 750.55 Incorporated Society; Representative Deputy Sheriff.
  Any society incorporated in this state for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals may designate 1 or more persons in each county of...
• Section 750.56 Definitions.
  Definitions—In the preceding sections of this chapter the word “animal” or “animals” shall be held to include all brute creatures, and the words “owner”,...
• Section 750.57 Burial Of Dead Animals.
  A person who places a dead animal or part of the carcass of a dead animal into a lake, river, creek, pond, road, street,...
• Section 750.58 Horses; Unhitching And Driving Away.
  Unhitching and driving away horses without authority—Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously or wantonly, and without authority unhitch any horse or team belonging...
• Section 750.59 Animals Unfit For Work; Disposition And Use.
  Disposition and use of animals permanently unfit for work—Any person who shall offer for sale or sell or trade any horse or mule which...
• Section 750.60 Horses' Tails; Docking.
  (1) A person who cuts the bone of the tail of a horse for the purpose of docking the tail, or who causes or...
• Section 750.61 Docked Horses; Registration, Bringing Into State.
  Importation, etc., of unregistered docked horses—It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to import or bring into this state any docked horse...
• Section 750.62 Docked Horses; Registration.
  Registration of docked horses—Within 90 days after this act shall take effect, every owner or user of any docked horse within this state shall...
• Section 750.63 Docked Horses; Unlawful Docking, Evidence.
  Prima facie evidence of unlawful docking—The driving, working, keeping, racing or using of any unregistered docked horse or horses subsequent to 90 days after...
• Section 750.64 Docked Horses; Failure To Register.
  A person who violates a provision of this chapter by failing to register a docked horse as herein provided is guilty of a misdemeanor...
• Section 750.65 Bull; At Large On Highway Or Unenclosed Land.
  Any person being the owner of a bull 6 months or more of age or having the same in charge, who shall permit said...
• Section 750.66 Person Responsible For Dog Or Wolf-dog Cross That Has Bitten Another Person; Information To Be Provided; Violation As Misdemeanor; Exception; Definitions.
  (1) If a person 18 years of age or older is responsible for controlling the actions of a dog or wolf-dog cross and the...
• Section 750.66a Dog Or Wolf-dog Cross Bite; Responsible Person To Remain On Scene; Violation As Misdemeanor; Penalty; Exception; Definitions.
  (1) If a person 18 years of age or older is responsible for controlling the actions of a dog or wolf-dog cross and the...
• Section 750.67 Domestic Animals Or Fowl On Cemetery Grounds, Landing Fields, Airports.
  Domestic animals or fowl on cemetery grounds, landing fields and airports—Any owner or keeper of any domestic animal or fowl, who shall allow any...
• Section 750.68 Brand Of Animals.
  Changing, etc., brand of animals—Any person who shall mark or brand, or alter or deface the mark or brand of any domestic animal, the...
• Section 750.69 Rescuing Animals.
  Rescuing animals—Any person who shall rescue any cattle, horse, mule, sheep, swine or goat when impounded, or while being driven or taken to the...
• Section 750.70 Impounding Animals Unlawfully.
  Unlawfully impounding animals—Any person who shall take any animal mentioned in the next preceding section not running at large contrary to law from the...

Last modified: October 10, 2016