§ 4-6. Cruelty to animals.

Any person who:

(1)

Overrides, overdrives, overloads, tortures, ill-treats, abandons, willfully inflicts inhumane injury or pain not connected with bona fide scientific or medical experimentation, or cruelly or unnecessarily beats, maims, mutilates, or kills any animal, whether belonging to himself or another;

(2)

Deprives any animal of necessary food, drink, shelter or emergency veterinary treatment;

(3)

Sores any equine for any purpose or administers drugs or medications to alter or mask such soring for the purpose of sale, show, or exhibition of any kind, unless such administration of drugs or medications is within the context of a veterinary client-patient relationship and solely for therapeutic purposes;

(4)

Willfully sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any act of cruelty to any animal;

(5)

Carries or causes to be carried by any vehicle, vessel or otherwise any animal in a cruel, brutal, or inhumane manner, so as to produce torture or unnecessary suffering; or

(6)

Causes any of the above things or, being the owner of such animal, permits such acts to be done by another;

is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. In addition to the penalties provided in this subsection, the court may, in its discretion, require any person convicted of a violation of this subsection to attend an anger management or other appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. The court may impose the costs of such a program or counseling upon the person convicted.

(Comp. Ords., § 3.7)

State Law reference— Cruelty to animals, Code of Virginia, § 3.2-6570.

(Comp. Ords., § 3.7)

State law reference

Cruelty to animals, Code of Virginia, § 3.2-6570.