Chapter 9.32
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS*

Sections:

9.32.010    Offenses described—Penalty.

*    For statutory provisions on cruelty to animals and abandonment of animals, see RCW Chs. 16.52 and 16.54.

9.32.010 Offenses described—Penalty.

Whoever, within the corporate limits of the town, overdrives, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary substance, cruelty beats, mutilates or cruelly kills any animal, or causes any animal to be overdriven, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary substance, cruelly beaten, mutilated, or cruelly killed or, having the charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts needless cruelty on the same, or cruelly or unnecessarily fails to provide for the same with proper food, drink, shelter or protection from the weather within the corporate limits of the town, or procures any animal or fowl to fight with one of its kind, or within the corporate limits aids, advises or abets in the procurement or causing any animal or fowl to fight with one of its kind, or, being present as a spectator, permits any animal or fowl to fight with one of its own kind within the corporate limits is guilty of cruelty to animals and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the town or county jail not to exceed thirty days, or by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or by both. (Ord. 13 § 5, 1910)