This site will be continually under construction and changing as the states, counties and municipals continually change their regulations and laws. These are the current regulations for 1996 that we have received to date. If you have other information, please let us know the citations of those laws or regulations, the state and when the changes went or will go into effect by sending e-mail to lawschange@monkeymaddness.com.
I. "Animal shelter facility" means a facility, including the building and the immediate surrounding area, which is used to house or contain animals and which is owned, operated, and maintained by a duly incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals or other non-profit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, and humane treatment of animals.
II. "Canine" means a member of a species of mammal consisting of dogs, wolves, jackals, foxes, and coyotes.
III. "Hybrid" means an offspring of 2 animals of different species or genera.
IV. "Owner" means any person keeping, harboring, or having charge or control of a hybrid, or permitting any hybrid to habitually be or remain on , or be lodged or fed within such person s house, yard, or premises. This term shall not apply to veterinarians or kennel operators temporarily maintaining on their premises hybrids owned by other persons.
V. "Person" means any individual, partnership, company, association, trust, corporation, governmental unit or agency, or other legal entity.
VI. "Wolf" means any canine classified as Canis lupis or Canis rufus.
VII. "Wolf Hybrid" means any canine which has had a wolf ancestor in the last 4 generations. This definition shall include a wolf or wolf hybrid as either a sire or dam, grandsire or dam, great-grandsire or dam, or great-great grandsire or dam. An animal shall also be considered a wolf hybrid if it has been represented by its former owner as having wolf ancestry.
The provisions of RSA 466, RSA 436:99-109 and RSA 644:8, shall apply to wolf-hybrids, except as modified by the provisions of this chapter.
I. No person shall sell, offer for sale, trade, give away, acquire, import, export, release or cause to be released a wolf hybrid in the state of New Hampshire, except as provided in paragraphs II, II-a, or II-b.
II. No person shall posses a wolf hybrid, except for:
(a) Those wolf hybrids that the person owns while residing in the state of New Hampshire on June 6, 1994;
(b) Those wolf hybrids born in New Hampshire to a canine that was both pregnant with such wolf hybrids and owned in New Hampshire on June 6, 1994; or
(c) Those wolf hybrids used as sled-dogs which are temporarily brought into the state for competitive events.
II-a. A person may import a wolf hybrid provided the wolf hybrid is spayed or neutered and has proper documentation of the spaying or neutering.
II-b. The transfer of ownership and possession of a wolf-hybrid from a person to an animal shelter facility is permitted.
III. Any person possessing a wolf hybrid shall keep accurate licensing and vaccination records, as required by RSA 466-A:2 and neutering records, as provided in RSA 466-A:3,
II-a, which shall be available for inspection by an animal control officer or law enforcement officer.
The owner of a wolf hybrid shall be required by the veterinarian administering the rabies vaccination, as required by RSA 436:100, to sign an affidavit in the presence of a veterinarian indicating awareness that the use of canine -approved vaccine on wolf hybrids is experimental and acknowledging that neither the veterinarian administering the vaccine nor the manufacturer of the vaccine shall be liable in the event the wolf hybrid contracts rabies. The commissioner of the department of agriculture shall determine the form and content of this affidavit by the rules adopted pursuant to RSA
541-A. If the commissioner of agriculture makes a determination that the rabies vaccine is prevent to be effective when administered to wolf-hybrids, then the signing of this affidavit shall no longer be required.
Each wolf hybrid shall be under the physical control of the owner or confined to an enclosure or structure sufficient to prohibit escape. Adequate facilities and shelter, clean of waste and debris and free of infestation, shall be provided for keeping such an animal.
Any person failing to meet the requirements of this chapter shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
In New Hampshire, as of 1992 it is illegal to keep a monkey as a pet. Those that have a sales proof of obtaining their monkey before that date, are allowed to keep them. To exhibit or to import a monkey in the state of New Hampshire, you have to have a permit. So, if you are traveling through the state with your monkey, please make sure to obtain a permit.