§ 10.30.150. Knowingly selling an animal with condition requiring immediate treatment prohibited—Penalties.

(a) A retailer or dealer who sells an animal that he knows has any illness, disease or other condition that is terminal or requires immediate hospitalization or immediate surgical intervention at the time of sale is guilty of a misdemeanor. In addition to any other penalty that may be imposed, the court may prohibit a person convicted of a violation of this section from selling any animals for not more than one year.

(b)

For the purposes of this section, the presence of internal or external parasites does not constitute an illness, disease or other condition that is terminal or requires clinically immediate hospitalization or immediate surgical intervention unless the animal is clinically ill as a result of the parasite.

(Ord. 2333 § 21, 1999)