Fulton County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Wright Friday granted a pet owner and a state lawmaker's request for a preliminary injunction requiring the agency and state Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin to uphold the 1990 Humane Euthanasia Act.
The article makes mention that there will be some exceptions to allowing the use of gas chambers. While they weren't mentioned in the AJC article, Commissioner Irwin had them posted on the GA Dept. of Ag website:
The law pertaining to the euthanasia of animals provides for several exemptions from the requirement of the use of sodium pentobarbital injection, including exempting the application of the law to counties whose populations are 25,000 or under. Over half the counties in Georgia fall within that exemption alone. If a shelter falls within one of the exemptions in the law, then it is a local matter as to whether that shelter decides to act under it. People who are unhappy about the law and the exemptions it provides should contact their legislators.
It should also be noted that, contrary to what has been reported in the media and by the persons bringing this lawsuit, there is no section of the Georgia Code that has been designated by the Georgia legislature as the “Humane Euthanasia Act.” This is a label that the persons bringing this lawsuit have apparently come up with.
I wait to see what happens next.
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