A. Cruelty; Inhumane Treatment: No person shall cruelly treat, inhumanely kill, or cause to be cruelly treated or inhumanely killed, or knowingly allow to be cruelly treated or inhumanely killed any animal by beating, torturing, burning, tormenting, mutilating, shooting, starving, or overworking his or her own or another person's animal. Violations of this subsection shall be punished pursuant to section 70/16 of the Humane Care for Animals Act 1 .
B. Inadequate Care And Treatment; Fights: No person shall fail to provide adequate food, water or shelter. The use of an animal to fight other animals for sport or pleasure will be considered inadequate care of animals and is prohibited under the terms of this chapter.
C. Abandonment: No person shall knowingly abandon any animal whether healthy, old, maimed, infirm, sick or disabled on his or her own property without daily care or by abandonment off the owner's premises where it may suffer injury, hunger, exposure or become a public charge. (Ord. 06-009, 6-13-2006)
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| 1 | 2. 510 ILCS 70/16. |