(A) It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of a dog to fail to provide it with sufficient good and wholesome food, water, proper shelter, protection from weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering and with humane care and treatment.
(B) It shall also be unlawful for any person to beat, ill-treat, torment or otherwise abuse any dog or cause or permit any dog fight.
(C) An animal control officer shall issue a summons if there is probable cause to believe that a violation of any provision of this section has been violated, including the following violations:
(1) Abandonment of an animal, or any act to cause an animal to be abandoned;
(2) Expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall reasonably be expected to be eaten by any animal, fish, bird, fowl, or reptile;
(3) Cruelly beat, ill-treat, torment, torture, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate, or permit, any fight, or other combat between animals, or animals and humans;
(4) Performing an operation to crop, notch, or split any animals ear or tail without a valid license to practice veterinary medicine in South Carolina;
(5) Failure to provide treatment or denial of treatment for any diseased, sick or injured animal;
(6) Failure to provide or denial of necessary sustenance, such as food in an inadequate amount to sustain flesh or permit normal growth, an inadequate amount of clean water, or water that is sour, filthy or spoiled;
(7) Failure to remove excrement and keep shelter or confinement area clean and odor free;
(8) Failure to provide or denial of shelter for any animal in any manner without shading same from the sun, any direct light, heat or cold and providing adequate ventilation for their use;
(9) Selling, offering for sale, bartering, or giving away, any animal which is not at least eight weeks of age;
(10) Leaving a dog outside unattended during extreme weather.
(11) Locking animal in vehicle unattended when the officer’s opinion is that the animal is in distress.
(‘88 Code, § 3.214) (Am. Ord. 22-10-01, passed 10-18-22) Penalty, see § 10.99