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urn: urn:us-la:rs:40:1031
citation: "R.S. 40:1031"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 40 › Chapter 4 › Part X-C"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1987, number: 225, section: 2, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2006, number: 676, section: 3, effective_date: 2006-07-01, role: amendment }
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# Purpose

It is the purpose of this Part to establish a permit system to allow animal control facilities to acquire and administer sodium pentobarbital for the humane euthanasia of sick, homeless, and abandoned animals.