What is Animal Protection?
Animal protection is a large number of actions that it carries out State Dominican and non-profit organizations profit to be done cargo of capture and the accommodation of abandoned and abused animals, as well as their adoption, health and sacrifice. In addition, the associations fight for legal measures such as the Act 248-12, which judge animal abuse, prohibit entertainment to Rib of their suffering, and raise awareness society on the protection and defense of these.
Object of Act
This law has for object: 1) establish the obligations of the State for animal protection; 2) prevent and eradicate all mistreatment and cruel acts against animals that torment or harass them; 3) ensure the health and well-being of animals; 4) foster and promote social awareness regarding the protection and care of animals.
Of the obligations of the State Dominican against Animal Protection:
- Protection of derechos. Is legal obligation of the State safeguard the derechos of animals and their footing to the Life and protect them from contempt, disrespect, neglect, carelessness, abandonment, the mistreatment and cruelty to which they are subjected, fostering the care of the species and their habitat.
- - Obligations. The State, through the Ministry of Public Health and Assistance Social, is in the legal obligation to create and promote educational plans and programs aimed at instilling in citizens respect for the Life and derechos of the animals.
- Obligations of the town councils. The Town Hall of the District National, the town councils of the municipalities and the municipal district councils, are in the legal obligation to support state plans and programs aimed at the protection of animals and create the bases for the installation of animal care centers within the scope of their territorio.
- Obligations of the State against institutions. It is legal obligation of the State lend all the helps y collaboration necessary for recognized animal protection institutions, in order to achieve optimization and objectives in the fulfillment of its purposes and of this law.
- Obligation to vaccinate animals. It is legal obligation of the State, through the Ministry of Public Health and Assistance Social, create periodic programs, according to national and international standards, for the vaccination of domestic animals or work, against rabies and other diseases harmful to animals and the man.
Of the Sanctions for the Violation to Act
- Sanction for selling animals in unauthorized places. Anyone who sells animals in unauthorized places or who, being authorized, violates the provisions of the Article 39 of this law, will be subject to closure of the place, fine between three (3) and six (6) minimum wages established by the Treasury of the Social security and between one (1) and three (3) months of social services in places intended for the protection and care of animals.
- Sanction for sales in public places. All person that violates what is established in the Article 41 of this law, will be punished with a fine between three (3) and six (6) minimum wages established by the Treasury of the Social security and between one (1) and three (3) months of social services in places intended for the protection and care of animals.
- Sanction by negligence. But person that violates the provisions of articles 17, 18, 19, 26, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 47 and 59 of this law, will be punished with prison from one (1) to three (3) months and one fine from five (5) to ten (10) minimum wages established by the Treasury of the Social security.
- Sanction for abuse. All person who violates the provisions of articles 25, 28, 55 and 60 will be punished with prison between three (3) to six (6) months and fine between ten (10) to twenty (20) minimum wages established by the Treasury of the Social security.
- Sanction for cruelty. All person who violates the provisions of articles 30, 32, 46, 50, 53 and 61 will be punished with prison between six (6) months to one (1) year and we will announce y fine from twenty-five (25) to fifty (50) minimum wages established by the Treasury of the Social security.
- Recidivism. Recidivism in the violations established in this law will be punished with double the penalty imposed.
Marco Legal International for the protection of animals: Declaration Universal of the Rights of the Animals
On September 23, 1977, the Constitution was adopted Declaration Universal of the Rights of the Animal, which recognizes in its preamble the situation of contempt and mistreatment that animals suffer, considering it as the point of game for the creation of this instrument. As a result, it recognizes in the first place term that animals have right to the existence, respect, due attention, care and protection of part of the man, warning that this cannot be attributed to the right to exterminate or exploit them.
A way In general, there are several important aspects to highlight about this proclamation: guarantees that no animal will be subjected to bad treatments or cruel treatment; regulates the procedure in /// if necessary death of an animal under the conditions of “instant, painless and not causing distress”, and grants all wild species the right to live in a way spirit in its environment natural already reproducing.
One of the most important contents of this Declaration Universal results from the legal obligation which establishes that governments should have animal protection and safeguarding bodies represented by them, in addition to requiring that the derechos of the animal must be protected by special laws, as is the case with derechos of the man.
A level Globally, animal welfare protection laws exist in 12 countries in the Americas, 10 in Africa, 9 in Asia, 24 in Europe and 17 in Oceania, resulting in “no less than 65 countries on 5 continents having strict provisions aimed at protecting animal welfare in general or specific terms.”
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