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Maine Law on High School Vivisection |
CHAPTER 731
MISTREATMENT OF ANIMALS
7 § 3971. Vivisection prohibited in public and private schools
1. Use of animals in schools. No live vertebrate, except eggs, may be
used in kindergarten and grades one to 12 of any public or private
school as part of a scientific experiment or for any other purpose in
which the animal is experimentally medicated or drugged in a manner to
cause painful reactions or to induce painful or lethal pathological
conditions, or in which the animal is injured through any other type of
treatment, experiment or procedure, including, but not limited to,
anesthetization or electric shock or where the normal health of the
animal is interfered with or where pain or distress is caused.
No person may, in the presence of any student in kindergarten and
grades one to 12, practice vivisection or exhibit a vivisected animal.
Dissection of dead animals or any portions of dead animals in schools
shall be confined to the classroom and to the presence of students
engaged in the study of dissection and shall not be for the purpose of
exhibition.
This subsection shall also apply to any activity associated with or sponsored by the school system.
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