Section 284:38 Malicious Interference with Horses or Dogs.

Any person who wilfully or maliciously attempts to or does interfere with, tamper with, injure, or destroy by the use of narcotics, drugs, stimulants, or appliances of any kind any horse or dog used for the purpose of racing, whether such horse or dog be the property of such person or another, or who wilfully or maliciously causes, instigates, counsels, or in any way aids or abets any such interference, tampering, injury, or destruction shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. The owner of any race horse or race dog engaged in racing within this state that is found to have been stimulated or doped, or any entry of which such horse or dog is a part, shall be denied any part of the purse offered for such race, and the purse shall be distributed as in the case of a disqualification.

Source. 1939, 71:1. RL 171:14. RSA 284:38. 1971, 541:16. 1973, 528:184, eff. at 11:59 P.M., Oct. 31, 1973.