Proposition Summary
Initiative. Defines bull-dogging, bull-riding, bull-dodging, wild-animal-racing, wild-animal-milking, steer-roping, two-men-roping, high-lifting, loin-strapping; prohibits such acts or use of spurs to make animal buck, or terrifying or exciting it by any means, for sport, exhibition, or amusement; declares such prohibition inapplicable to farming or dairying or to branding or breaking animals in raising cattle, horses or mules; prohibits the biting, chewing or twisting any part of an animal’s body or holding or controlling an animal with pincers, twisters or similar instruments; and prescribes penalties for violations.
Proposition Number
21
Year
1928
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Fail
Popular Vote Results
Y: 509632; A: 36.9; N: 870682; B: 63.1
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Initiative
For Author
Herbert W. Erskine
Against Author
Marco H. Hellman; Fred H. Bixby; Orie O. Robertson
Recommended Citation
PROHIBITING CERTAIN ACTS WITH ANIMALS AND USE OF CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS TO CONTROL THEM California Proposition 21 (1928).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/250