Animal Cruelty (felony charge): A person commits the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals when he or she knowingly and maliciously causes death or physical harm to an animal by rendering a part of such animal's body useless or by seriously disfiguring such animal... (paraphrased) except for conduct otherwise permitted under state or federa
Animal Cruelty (felony charge): A person commits the offense of aggravated
cruelty to animals when he or she knowingly and maliciously causes death or physical harm
to an
animal by rendering a part of such animal's body useless or by seriously disfiguring such animal... (paraphrased) except for conduct otherwise permitted under state or federa
animal by rendering a part of such
animal's body useless or by seriously disfiguring such animal... (paraphrased) except for conduct otherwise permitted under state or federa
animal's body useless or by seriously disfiguring such
animal... (paraphrased) except for conduct otherwise permitted under state or federa
animal... (paraphrased) except for conduct otherwise
permitted under state or federal law.
In 1997, the City Council revised the
animal control ordinance
to: require licensing of cats and dogs; require a kennel
permit for more than four cats or four dogs; regulate the number of
animals that may be adopted from the city shelter; define
animal cruelty and
animal nuisance; and give city officials authority
to control potential public health threats.
Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an
animal, or causes or procures an
animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live
animal, except an
animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an
animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary
cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails
to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an
animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it
to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the
animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or
permits it
to be subjected
to unnecessary torture, suffering or
cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.