All dogs taken into the custody of the animal control officer which by reason of age, disease, or other causes, are unfit for further use or are dangerous to keep impounded, may be forthwith humanely destroyed by the animal control officer.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 143-13
Destruction of diseased or unfit dogs
L 1941, c 268, §11; RL 1945, §7162; RL 1955, §156-13; HRS §143-13; am L 1983, c 227, §10
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