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Timestamp: 2020-07-13 15:00:15
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1942', 'art 4', '§ 1942', '§ 1942', '§ 1942', '§ 2']

CA - Declaw, debark - § 1942.7. Conditions on occupancy based on declawing or devocalizing animals | Animal Legal & Historical Center
Full Statute Name: West's Annotated California Codes. Civil Code. Division 3. Obligations. Part 4. Obligations Arising from Particular Transactions. Title 5. Hiring. Chapter 2. Hiring of Real Property. § 1942.7. Conditions on occupancy based on declawing or devocalizing animals allowed on the premises; restrictions on persons or corporations occupying, owning, managing, or providing services in connection with real property; declaratory or injunctive relief; civil penalties
Primary Citation: West's Ann.Cal.Civ.Code § 1942.7 Country of Origin: United States Last Checked: January, 2020 Alternate Citation: CA CIVIL § 1942.7 Date Adopted: 2012 Historical:
Summary: This California law prohibits any owner or property manager from advertising a requirement, refusing occupancy of, or otherwise requiring a prospective tenant to declaw or devocalize any animal allowed on the premises. A city attorney, district attorney, or other law enforcement prosecutorial entity has standing to enforce this section and may sue for declaratory relief or injunctive relief for a violation of this section. Violation results in a civil penalty of not more than $1,000.
(a) A person or corporation that occupies, owns, manages, or provides services in connection with any real property, including the individual's or corporation's agents or successors in interest, and that allows an animal on the premises, shall not do any of the following:
(1) Advertise, through any means, the availability of real property for occupancy in a manner designed to discourage application for occupancy of that real property because an applicant's animal has not been declawed or devocalized.
(2) Refuse to allow the occupancy of any real property, refuse to negotiate the occupancy of any real property, or otherwise make unavailable or deny to any other person the occupancy of any real property because of that person's refusal to declaw or devocalize any animal.
(4) “Declawing” means performing, procuring, or arranging for any procedure, such as an onychectomy, tendonectomy, or phalangectomy, to remove or to prevent the normal function of an animal's claw or claws.
(5) “Devocalizing” means performing, procuring, or arranging for any surgical procedure such as a vocal cordectomy, to remove an animal's vocal cords or to prevent the normal function of an animal's vocal cords.
(c)(1) A city attorney, district attorney, or other law enforcement prosecutorial entity has standing to enforce this section and may sue for declaratory relief or injunctive relief for a violation of this section, and to enforce the civil penalties provided in paragraphs (2) and (3).
(Added by Stats.2012, c. 596 (S.B.1229), § 2.)