(A) A person who:
(1) Willfully or maliciously kills, abuses, maims, tortures, or disfigures any animal or willfully or maliciously administers poison to any animal or exposes any poisonous substance with the intent that the poisonous substance shall be taken and swallowed by such animal;
(2) Overloads, overworks, torments, or intentionally deprives an animal of its necessary food, water, or shelter resulting in preventable suffering or death;
(3) Beats, mutilates, uses for the purposes of bait as defined in this chapter, or causes said actions to occur; or
(4) Engages in any of the following:
(a) Owns, possesses, keeps, or trains any animal with the intent that such animal shall be engaged in an exhibition of fighting;
(b) Builds, makes, maintains, or keeps a pit on premises owned or occupied by the animal owner or allows a pit to be built, made, maintained, or kept on said premises for the purposes of an exhibition of animal fighting;
(c) Encourages, instigates, promotes, or assists in an exhibition of animal fighting or intentional combat; or
(d) Charges admission; is an assistant, umpire, or participant; is present as a spectator to any exhibition of animal fighting or combat; or commits animal cruelty under this section.
(B) A person who owns or confines any animal and fails to supply it with adequate shelter, food, water, space, or veterinary care, as defined in this chapter, with such acts committed without malicious or punitive intent, commits animal neglect under this section.
(C) A person who abandons an animal in a residence or other owned property or tethers an animal outside for the purposes of abandonment at a residence, or place of business.
(D) Any animal control officer or other officer empowered to act by law may impound any animal found to be the victim of animal cruelty, animal neglect, or animal abandonment.
(E) Nothing in this section shall prohibit hunting or fishing, as permitted by the law of the state and the rules and regulations of the State Department of Natural Resources.
(Ord. 11-2021, passed 10-12-2021) Penalty, see § 92.99