SUMMARY--Increases penalty for killing wild horse. (BDR 45-1229)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to wild horses; increasing the penalty for killing a wild horse; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 NRS 504.490 is hereby amended to read as follows:
504.490 1. Any person, not legally authorized to do so, who:
[1.] (a) Removes or attempts to remove a wild horse from the public lands;
[2.] (b) Converts a wild horse to private use;
[3.] (c) Harasses a wild horse [or kills a wild horse;
4.] ;
(d) Uses an aircraft or a motor vehicle to hunt any wild horse;
[5.] (e) Pollutes or causes the pollution of a watering hole on public land to trap, wound [, kill] or maim a wild horse;
[6.] (f) Makes or causes the remains of a wild horse to be made into any commercial product;
[7.] (g) Sells a wild horse which strays onto private property; or
[8.] (h) Willfully violates a regulation adopted by the commission for the preservation of wild horses,
is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. Any person, not legally authorized to do so, who intentionally kills a wild horse, is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
Sec. 2 NRS 574.100 is hereby amended to read as follows:
574.100 [Except in any case involving a willful or malicious act for which] Unless a greater penalty is provided by NRS 206.150 [,] or 504.490, a person who:
1. Overdrives, overloads, tortures or cruelly beats or unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates or kills any animal, whether belonging to himself or to another;
2. Deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink;
3. Causes, procures or permits any animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated or killed, or to be deprived of necessary food or drink;
4. Willfully sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers an act of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty; or
5. Abandons an animal in circumstances other than those prohibited in NRS 574.110,
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 3 The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses that are committed before October 1, 1997.