Bill Text: CA SB1126 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1126 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: The Wildlife Center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-17 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1126 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1126-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 1126	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2012

   An act to add Part 4 (commencing with Section 19600) to Division 9
of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to wildlife.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1126, as introduced, Walters. The Wildlife Center.
   Existing law provides that there is in state government the
Department of Food and Agriculture and prescribes various duties,
powers, and responsibilities of the department.
   This bill would require the department, upon inspection and
approval of the facility, to grant the Wildlife Center a permit to
operate for at least 5 years. The bill would provide that the
department is the sole state licensing agency over the Wildlife
Center. The bill would authorize the department to charge the
Wildlife Center a fee for the initial permit and for any subsequent
renewals and inspections to cover the department's reasonable costs
for those activities. The bill would require the Department of Fish
and Game, upon the request of the Wildlife Center, to release the
remains of Cotie, a dog/coyote hybrid, to the Wildlife Center.
    This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Wildlife Center.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as Cotie's
Law.
  SEC. 2.  Part 4 (commencing with Section 19600) is added to
Division 9 of the Food and Agricultural Code, to read:

      PART 4.  WILDLIFE CENTER


   19600.  (a) The Department of Food and Agriculture shall, upon
inspection and approval of the facility, grant the Wildlife Center, a
nonprofit animal shelter and rescue organization under Section 501
(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and located in San Diego County,
a permit to operate for a period of at least five years. The
department shall be the sole state licensing agency over the Wildlife
Center.
   (b) The department may charge the Wildlife Center a fee for the
initial permit and for any subsequent renewals and inspections to
cover the department's reasonable costs for those activities.
   (c) The Department of Fish and Game shall, upon the request of the
Wildlife Center, release the remains of Cotie, a seven-year-old
dog/coyote hybrid that was confiscated at the center by a warden of
the Department of Fish and Game, to the Wildlife Center.
  SEC. 3.   The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances surrounding the ownership and
operation of the Wildlife Center.