PRINTER'S NO. 470
No. 453 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, KUKOVICH, RAFFERTY AND PUNT,
MARCH 11, 2003
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 11, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for the prevention of the
3 utilization of bull hooks in connection with elephants.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 5511(q) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition and the
8 section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
9 § 5511. Cruelty to animals.
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11 (c.1) Cruelty to elephants to maintain obedience.--A person
12 commits a summary offense if he utilizes, or allows to be
13 utilized, a bull hook to beat, discipline, prod, train, yank or
14 otherwise control any elephant.
15 * * *
16 (q) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
17 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
18 subsection:
1 * * *
2 "Bull hook." A sharpened steel hook at the end of a long
3 handle or stick; an ankus; an elephant goad; an elephant hook.
4 * * *
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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