LAW OF UKRAINE

of June 22, 2017 No. 2120-VIII

About modification of some legal acts of Ukraine concerning implementation of the humane attitude towards animals

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decides:

I. Make changes to the following legal acts of Ukraine:

1. In the Code of Ukraine about administrative offenses (The sheet of the Verkhovna Rada of USSR, 1984, Appendix to No. 51, the Art. 1122):

The text of Article 89 to state 1) in the following edition:

"Animals abuse - mockery at animals, drawing the beating or making of other violent acts which caused to animal physical pain, sufferings and did not entail bodily harms, mutilations or death, leaving of animals to the mercy of fate, including abuse of regulations of content of animals,

attract imposing of penalty from two hundred to three hundred free minima income of citizens with confiscation of animal if stay of animal at the owner poses threat for his life or health.

The same actions made concerning two and more animals, either group of persons, or person who within year was subjected to administrative punishment for the same violation, promotion of ill treatment of animals

involve imposing of penalty from three hundred to five hundred free minima income of citizens or administrative detention for a period of up to fifteen days with confiscation of animal if stay of animal at the owner poses threat for his life or health.

The violent acts concerning animals directed to satisfaction of sexual passion

attract imposing of penalty from two hundred to five hundred free minima income of citizens with confiscation of animal if stay of animal at the owner poses threat for his life or health";

Article 221 after the word and figures "Articles 85-1, 88 - 88-2" to add 2) with figures "89";

The word and figures "Article 44-1" to replace 3) in Article 222 part one with the word and figures "Article 89";

Paragraph two of Item of 1 part one of article 255 after figures "51-2" to add 4) with figures "88-1, 89".

2. Article 299 of the Criminal code of Ukraine (2001, 131) to state sheets of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to Art. No. 25-26, in the following edition:

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