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HRS §142-14

Selling or using sick animals is a crime

This law makes it a petty misdemeanor to sell, offer for sale, use, or expose a horse or other animal that you know has a dangerous contagious disease (like glanders or farcy) or is too sick to recover. It also covers causing someone else to do those things.

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The statute, as written — Sale of diseased animals; penalty

Any person who sells or offers for sale, or uses, or exposes, or who causes or procures to be sold, or offered for sale, or used, or to be exposed, any horse or any other animal having the disease known as glanders, or farcy, or any other contagious or infectious disease, known by the person to be dangerous to human life, or which are diseased past recovery, shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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