No person shall willfully or negligently maltreat or abuse or neglect in a cruel or inhumane manner any animal or fowl. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or maliciously administer, or cause to be administered, poison of any sort whatsoever to any animal, with the intent to injure or destroy such animal, or to willfully or maliciously place any poison or poisoned food where the same is accessible to any such animal.
(Prior Code, § 5.0306) Penalty, see § 10.99