No person shall put to death, within the state, a racing greyhound or a retired racing greyhound except in a humane manner. For the purposes of this section, the phrase in a humane manner means by means of euthanasia by lethal injection, or by any other standard of humane killing that may be established by the American veterinary medicine association.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-1-34
Destruction of racing greyhounds
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Beardslee v. Woodford (2005)
Most recently applied in Beardslee v. Woodford (January 2005)
P.L. 1990, ch. 465, § 1.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.