(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep animals under unsanitary or inhumane conditions; to fail to provide proper food and water daily, shelter from the weather, reasonably clean quarters, and proper medical attention for sick, diseased or injured animals, as well as adequate inoculation against disease, according to the species of the animal kept.
(B) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to molest, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, cruelly beat, needlessly mutilate or kill, wound, injure, poison, abandon or subject to conditions detrimental to its health or general welfare any animal or to cause or procure that action.
(2) The words
TORTURE, TORMENT or CRUELTY shall be held to include every act, omission or neglect whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering or death is caused or permitted, but these terms shall not be construed to prohibit proper authorities or their agents or veterinarians from destroying dangerous, unwanted or injured animals in a humane manner.
(1977 Code, § 4-3) Penalty, see § 90.99