Forwarded message - for info, please visit
http://network.bestfriends.org/animallawcoalition/news/7559.html
Note: This is an excerpt from the article about Tammy Grimes. I
believe it's important enough to send as a separate message.

Best Friends Announces Citizen's Good Samaritan Law

Best Friends Animal Society has proposed a citizen's good Samaritan
law. Under such a law, the text of which is set forth below in the
earlier report, citizens would be able to enter the property of
another for the limited purpose of taking an animal to a
veterinarian, if needed, or otherwise providing emergency care for an
animal. Of course, efforts must first be made, as they were in (Tammy)
Grimes' case, to notify the owners and animal control.

Here is the text of the law:

"Any person who has a reasonable belief an animal is injured, in
pain, sick or otherwise in need of assistance to protect its health
or life shall have the authority to enter upon the property of
another for the limited purpose of taking the animal to a
veterinarian or otherwise providing emergency care to the animal,
provided that, reasonable efforts have been made to report the
animal's condition to the local humane officer and the animal's owner
or custodian. A person offering assistance to an animal under this
section shall be immune from civil or criminal liability."

Best Friends' General Counsel, Russ Mead, announced the new law at
the rally. He explained later, "Someone who tries to save a suffering
animal should not be treated like a criminal, as if they had stolen a
car or stereo. Going onto someone 's property to save a life when the
owners are nowhere to be found and the Humane Society won't respond,
is an act of kindness. The law should treat it as such."

Best Friends is expected to push the initiative throughout the
country..

http://network.bestfriends.org/animallawcoalition/news/7559.html

Posted on SHARE Yahoo group Sep. 22, 2006