505.17 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS PROHIBITED.

No person shall overwork, overdrive, overload or torture an animal, deprive one of necessary sustenance, unnecessarily or cruelly beat, needlessly mutilate or kill, or impound or confine an animal without supplying it during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food or water. No person shall carry or convey an animal in a cruel or inhuman manner or keep animals in an enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air, or feed animals food that is adulterated or unwholesome, or work or abandon to die an old, maimed, sick, infirm or diseased animal.

(Ord. 2023-04. Passed 5-15-23.)

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