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ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE PENALTIES FOR CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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If any person shall overdrive, overload, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilate or kill or cause or procure to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, tormented or deprived of necessary sustenance or to be cruelly beaten, or needlessly beaten or killed, any living creature, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Any person who shall keep or use, or in any way be connected with or interested in the management of, or shall receive money for the admission of any person to any place kept for the purpose of fighting or baiting any bull, bear, dog, cock or other creature, and every person who shall encourage, air or assist therein, or who shall permit or suffer any place to be so kept or used, shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged as guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person violating the provisions of the previous sections, shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than Five nor more than Fifty Dollars.
Passed and adopted this May 26, 1902.