6.04.080   Inhuman treatment, mistreatment, torture, cruelty or neglect of animals.
   Every person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, or unreasonably or unnecessarily tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, unnecessarily or cruelly beats, or wilfully and maliciously and needlessly mutilates or kills, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise in a cruel or inhumane manner any animal, or causes or procures it to be done, or who, having the charge and custody of any animal, unnecessarily fails to provide it with the proper food, proper drink or proper protection from the elements, adequate sanitation and/or facilities, or cruelly abandons it shall be guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. (Ord. 749, 2014; Ord. 636 (part), 2006)