HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Pennsylvania lawmaker plans to introduce legislation specifically prohibiting people from leaving pets in unattended vehicles under dangerous conditions.<\/p>\n
State Rep. Jeanne McNeill, D-Lehigh, said the proposal would apply when someone intentionally, recklessly or negligently leaves or confines an animal in a car in conditions that endanger its health or well-being.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania law already makes it an offense to fail to provide an animal\u2019s basic needs, including protection from weather. McNeill said her legislation would explicitly address the risks of extreme heat or cold, poor ventilation and a lack of food or water inside an unattended vehicle.<\/p>\n
Under the proposal, a first violation in which the animal does not suffer serious bodily injury would carry a $100 fine per animal. A second violation \u2014 or one in which the animal suffers serious bodily injury \u2014 could result in a fine of up to $500 per animal, up to six months in jail, or both.<\/p>\n
The measure had not yet been formally introduced as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Pennsylvania lawmaker plans to introduce legislation specifically prohibiting people from leaving pets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-289575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}