An Animal Rights Protection Bill now moves to Gov. Ralph DLG Torres for enactment, after passing through the House of Representatives yesterday on a unanimous vote, following an amendment from the Senate. <\/p>\n
Introduced by House minority leader Rep. Edwin K. Propst (Ind-Saipan), House Bill 21-59, HD1, SS1, prohibits cruelty and theft of animals, and provides penalties for such acts.<\/p>\n
Any person who mistreats, abandons, or neglects an animal, whether his own or someone else\u2019s, will be faced with fines and penalties. <\/p>\n
Cruel mistreatment covers torturing and inflicting unnecessary physical injury upon an animal, or to kill an animal in a manner that causes suffering to the animal. This includes mutilating, maiming, stabbing, burning, drowning, beating, suffocating, tormenting, crushing, harming, or inflicting physical injury upon an animal. <\/p>\n
Cruel neglect is to knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly fail to provide an animal with food, water, or shelter to ensure the animal remains healthy; protection from adverse weather conditions; including the failure to provide medical care when the animal is sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, for the first time, we passed the Animal Protection Act, and it’s a great day for animal lovers. \u2026Today, historically, we will have [a legislation] that will protect animals from cruel acts,\u201d Propst said. <\/p>\n
In the middle of the deliberation for the bill, a dog in the CNMI, which had a knife embedded 2-3 inches in its head, went viral in social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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