578.407. Prohibited actions against animals, facilities, equipment and records.

Prohibited actions against animals, facilities, equipment and records.

578.407. No person shall:

(1) Release, steal, or otherwise intentionally cause thedeath, injury, or loss of any animal at or from an animalfacility and not authorized by that facility;

(2) Damage, vandalize, or steal any property in or on ananimal facility;

(3) Obtain access to an animal facility by false pretensesfor the purpose of performing acts not authorized by thefacility;

(4) Enter or otherwise interfere with an animal facilitywith the intent to destroy, alter, duplicate or obtainunauthorized possession of records, data, material, equipment, oranimals;

(5) Knowingly obtain, by theft or deception, control overrecords, data, material, equipment, or animals of any animalfacility for the purpose of depriving the rightful owner oranimal facility of the records, material, data, equipment, oranimals, or for the purpose of concealing, abandoning, ordestroying such records, material, data, equipment, or animals;

(6) Enter or remain on an animal facility with the intentto commit an act prohibited by this section.

(L. 1992 S.B. 498 § 3)