It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully overdrive, overload, wound, injure, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, cruelly beat, needlessly mutilate or kill or cause or procure to be overdriven, overloaded, wounded, injured, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, needlessly mutilated or killed as aforesaid any useful beast, fowl or animal. In this section, the words “animal” and “dumb animal” shall be held to include every living creature; the words “torture”, “torment” or “cruelly” shall be held in include every act, omission or neglect whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering or death is caused or permitted; but such terms shall not be construed to prohibit lawful shooting of birds and game for human food.
(Prior Code, § 3-7) Penalty, see § 90.99