Arizona SB 1675: unlawful sale; animals

Bill Text

SB1675 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: unlawful sale; animals

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SB 1675

 Introduced by 

 Senator 
 Kavanagh

AN 
ACT

providing for transferring and renumbering; 
amending section 13-2910.13, Arizona Revised Statutes, AS TRANSFERRED AND 
RENUMBERED; relating to offenses against public order.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 44-1799.71, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is transferred and renumbered for placement in title 13, chapter 29, 
Arizona Revised Statutes, as section 13-2910.13 and, as so renumbered, is 
amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-2910.13. Unlawful public sale of animals; classification; definitions

A. In a county with a population of eight five hundred thousand persons or more, a person 
commits the unlawful public sale of animals by knowingly selling it is unlawful for a person to sell, market, offer, barter, give away, 
display, advertise for sale or advertise for adoption an animal on:

1. Any public highway, street or park or any public 
property adjacent to a public highway, street or park.

2. Any commercial private property without the 
express consent of the owner or lessee of the property.

B. Subsection A of this section does 
not apply to:

1. Retail sales on the premises of a pet store.

2. Sales by a publicly operated or private, 
charitable nonprofit pound, humane society, animal rescue organization, animal shelter or educational or agricultural organization. 

3. Any rodeo, auction market, county fair, stock 
show or other sanctioned livestock exhibit event.

C. A person who is found responsible 
for a violation of violates this section is subject to a civil penalty of not more than fifty dollars guilty of a petty offense, except that a second or subsequent 
violation is a class 1 misdemeanor.

D. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Animal" means any living species of 
mammal, bird, amphibian or reptile.

2. "Pet store" has the same meaning 
prescribed in section 44-1799. END_STATUTE