California Code that Forbids Selling Unweaned Babies

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Herewith the law:
California Codes
California Health and Safety Code
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 122320-122324


122320. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Bird" means any order of Psittaciformes bird.
(b) "Bird mart" means an event at which two or more persons offer
birds for sale or exchange and where a fee is charged for the
privilege of offering or displaying the birds.
(c) "Hand-feeding" means the process by which a bird is manually
fed by a human through the use of hand, spoon, or oral gavage.
(d) "Pet shop" means a retail pet shop location primarily engaged
in retailing pets, pet foods, and pet supplies, as defined by the
North American Industry Classification System.
(e) "Sale" has the same meaning as retail sale as defined in
Section 6007 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(f) "Time of sale" means the calendar date the retail purchaser
removed the bird from the premises of the pet shop following the
retail sale of that bird.
(g) "Unweaned bird" means any bird that requires hand-feeding or
animal assistance to sustain at least 90 percent of its own weight
for at least two weeks.
(h) "Vendor" means any person or entity, including, but not
limited to, a broker, agent, aviary, or breeder, who sells birds
directly to the retail purchaser at a bird mart or at a swap meet as
defined in Section 21661 of the Business and Professions Code.
(i) "Weaned" means a bird that does not require hand-feeding or
animal assistance to sustain at least 90 percent of its own weight
following the time of sale, notwithstanding any illness or injury.



122321. (a) A pet shop with five or fewer employees may not possess
an unweaned bird unless the pet shop employs at least one person per
pet shop location who has completed the Pet Industry Joint Advisory
Council's avian certification program.
(b) A pet shop with six or more employees may not possess an
unweaned bird unless the pet shop employs at least two people who
have completed the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council's avian
certification program.
(c) A pet shop may not sell a bird unless the bird is weaned.
(d) A vendor may not sell a bird at a swap meet or bird mart,
unless the bird is weaned.
(e) At the time of sale, a pet shop location or vendor shall
document the weight of any hand-fed bird under one year of age, and
note the weight on the sales receipt.


122322. (a) Any person violating any provision of this chapter
shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars
($1,000) per violation. The action may be prosecuted in the name of
the people of the State of California by the district attorney for
the county where the violation occurred in the appropriate court or
by the city attorney in the city where the violation occurred.
(b) Nothing in this chapter limits or authorizes any act or
omission that violates Section 597 of the Penal Code.
(c) Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the seizure of an
unweaned bird by a peace officer, officer of a humane society, or
officer of a pound or animal regulation department of a public
agency.



122323. This chapter does not apply to publicly operated pounds and
humane societies.



122324. This chapter shall become operative on September 1, 2004.