28-1020 Animal abandonment, cruel neglect, or cruel mistreatment; report required by animal health care professional; immunity from liability. - Nebraska Statutes

28-1020. Animal abandonment, cruel neglect,or cruel mistreatment; report required by animal health care professional;immunity from liability.(1) Any animal health care professional, while acting inhis or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment,who observes or is involved in an incident which leads the animal health careprofessional to reasonably suspect that an animal has been abandoned, cruellyneglected, or cruelly mistreated, shall report such treatment to an entitythat investigates such reports in the appropriate jurisdiction.(2) Nothingin this section shall be construed to impose a duty to investigate observedor reasonably suspected abandonment, cruel neglect, or cruel mistreatmentof an animal. Any person making a report under this section is immune fromliability except for false statements of fact made with malicious intent.(3) For purposesof this section, an animal health care professional means a licensed veterinarianas defined in section 38-3310 or a licensed veterinary technician as definedin section 38-3311. SourceLaws 2009, LB494, § 7.