(A) A person shall be liable for cruel treatment or abuse where he or she overrides, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates, cruelly kills or causes any such described acts to any animals. Whoever having the charge or custody of any animal either as owner or otherwise, that inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon the same, or willfully fails to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter or protection from the weather is guilty of cruelty to animals as described in this section. The cropping of dog ears shall be considered to be a mutilation or cruelty to animals within the meaning of this section, unless the cropping is performed by a registered veterinary surgeon, while the dog is under an anesthetic.
(B) No person except an authorized officer, acting in his or her official capacity, shall molest, injure, kill or capture any wild bird or animal, or molest or disturb any wild bird's nest or the contents thereof.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit any poisonous substance on any exposed public or private place where it endangers, or is likely to endanger, any animal or bird.
(1992 Code, § 60.002) (Ord. 2-95, passed - - 1995) Penalty, see § 90.99