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Bill Text - AB-44 Fur products: prohibition. [ca.gov]

This bill would make it unlawful to sell, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or otherwise distribute for monetary or nonmonetary consideration a fur product, as defined, in the state. The bill would also make it unlawful to manufacture a fur product in the state for sale. The bill would exempt from these prohibitions used fur products, as defined, fur products used for specified purposes, and any activity expressly authorized by federal law. The bill would require a person that sells or trades any fur product exempt from this prohibition to maintain records of each sale or trade of an exempt fur product for at least one year, except as provided. The bill would provide that a person who violates these prohibitions may be subject to specified civil penalties. The bill would, in lieu of seeking criminal prosecution, authorize the department, the Attorney General, or the city attorney of the city or the district attorney or county counsel of the county in which a violation of one of these prohibitions occurs to bring a civil action to recover the civil penalty. The bill would require the civil penalty to be deposited in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund and to be used exclusively for specified purposes, including for the enforcement of these provisions. The bill would also authorize the recovery of the reasonable costs of investigation, reasonable attorney’s fees, and reasonable expert witness’ fees, which would be required to be credited to the same operating funds as that from which the expenditures for those purposes were derived. The bill would provide that these provisions are severable.

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