Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB242 Compare Versions

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4	4	By Representatives Crawford, Standridge, Shedd, Lee, Smith,
5	5	Whitt, Wood (D), Kitchens, Pettus, Moore (P), Reynolds,
6	6	Lovvorn, Hammett, Ingram
7	7	RFD: Agriculture and Forestry
8	8	First Read: 04-Apr-23
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17	17	SYNOPSIS:
18	18	Under existing law, a person is guilty of
19	19	permitting livestock or animals to run at large in the
20	20	State of Alabama upon the premises of another or public
21	21	lands if they do so knowingly, voluntarily,
22	22	negligently, or willfully.
23	23	This bill would provide that no municipal
24	24	governing body may adopt or continue in effect any
25	25	ordinance, rule, resolution, or directive that
26	26	prohibits this same conduct but does not require the
27	27	same mental state as state law.
28	28	This bill would also make nonsubstantive,
29	29	technical revisions to update the existing code
30	30	language to current style.
31	31	A BILL
32	32	TO BE ENTITLED
33	33	AN ACT
34	34	Relating to livestock; to amend Section 3-5-2, Code of
35	35	Alabama 1975, to provide that no municipal governing body may
36	36	adopt or continue in effect any ordinance, rule, resolution,
37	37	or directive that prohibits a person from permitting their
38	38	livestock or animals to run at large on the premises of
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68	68	another or public land which does not require the same mens
69	69	rea as state law; and to make nonsubstantive, technical
70	70	revisions to update the existing code language to current
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72	72	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
73	73	Section 1. Section 3-5-2, Code of Alabama 1975, is
74	74	amended to read as follows:
75	75	"§3-5-2
76	76	(a) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any livestock
77	77	or animal, as defined in Section 3-5-1, to knowingly,
78	78	voluntarily, negligently , or wilfully permit any such
79	79	livestock or animal to go run at large in the State of Alabama
80	80	either upon the premises of another or upon the public lands,
81	81	highways, roads, or streets in the State of Alabama.
82	82	(b) Nothing in this section or elsewhere in this
83	83	chapter shall be construed to make it unlawful for livestock
84	84	or other animals to run at large on the premises of another
85	85	when the owner or person in charge of the premises has
86	86	consented in writing to let allow livestock or other animals
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88	88	livestock or other animals to criminal prosecution therefor
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90	90	(c) There shall be no "open range" counties in this
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93	93	(d) Any person or persons owning or having the
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125	125	large, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction,
126	126	shall be fined not less than double the damages sustained by
127	127	the injured party or parties, but in no case more than $50.00
128	128	fifty dollars ($50) , one half of such fine to go to the
129	129	injured party or parties, and may also be imprisoned in the
130	130	county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for a
131	131	term not exceeding six months at the discretion of the court
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133	133	(e) No municipal governing body may adopt or continue
134	134	in effect any ordinance, rule, resolution, or other directive
135	135	that is inconsistent with this section. For purposes of this
136	136	subsection, an ordinance, rule, resolution, or directive shall
137	137	be considered inconsistent with this section if it proscribes
138	138	the same conduct prohibited by this section and provides no
139	139	requisite mental state or a mental state different than what
140	140	is provided in subsection (a) or (d). "
141	141	Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first
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143	143	the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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