The following requirements are established for pet and animal care and not intended to contravene the provisions on animal cruelty as provided in the Tex. Penal Code, Ch. 42.
(A) No owner shall fail to provide his or her animal(s) with sufficient good wholesome food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, and with humane care and treatment.
(B) No person shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate, or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight, or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(C) No owner of an animal shall abandon the animal.
(D) Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal, shall stop at once and render such assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report the injury or death to the animal’s owner; in the event the owner cannot be ascertained and located, the operator shall at once report the accident to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
(E) The use of steel jaw traps shall be prohibited.
(Ord. 414, passed 12-17-1996) Penalty, see § 92.99