No person shall be cruel to an animal by overloading, overdriving, overworking, cruelly beating, torturing, tormenting, mutilating or cruelly killing any animal, or causing or allowing the same to be done knowingly, or by cruelly working any animal which is maimed, infirm, sick or disabled or causing the same to be done, or unnecessarily failing to provide an animal in his charge or custody, as owner or otherwise, with proper food, drink and shelter, or abandoning an old, maimed, infirm, sick or disabled animal, or by keeping or driving or causing to be driven or kept an animal in an unnecessarily cruel manner. (Ord., 12-17-1963)
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