It shall be unlawful for any person:
(A) To cause or allow the mistreatment, torture or cruelty of an animal, by any act or omission whereby unnecessary, unjustifiable or unreasonable physical pain or suffering is caused, permitted or allowed to continue, including acts of mutilation;
(B) To cause or allow the inhumane treatment of an animal is any act of mistreatment, torture, cruelty, neglect, abandonment, mutilation or inhumane slaughter of an animal that is not consistent with generally accepted training, use and husbandry procedures for the species, breed, physical condition and type of animal;
(C) To neglect an animal by the failure to provide food, water, protection from the elements, adequate sanitation, adequate facilities or care generally considered to be standard and accepted for an animal's health and well-being consistent with the species, breed, physical condition and type of animal; and/or
(D) Keep any animal in suffering which is injured or diseased past recovery, or unfit for any useful purpose or to willfully abandon any such sick or disabled animal.
(1975 Code, § 6-4) Penalty, see § 93.99
Statutory reference:
Power of municipality to prohibit cruelty to animals, see SDCL § 9-29-11
Similar provisions, see SDCL §§ 40-1-1 et seq.