(a) No person shall knowingly engage in or be employed at dogfighting, cockfighting, bearbaiting or pitting an animal against another; no person shall receive money for the admission of another to a place kept for such purpose; no person shall use, train or possess any animal for seizing, detaining or maltreating a domestic animal. Any person who knowingly purchases a ticket of admission to such place, or is present thereat, or witnesses such spectacle, is an aider and abettor.
(ORC 959.15)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.