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140 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

CHAPTER 55.

[H. B. No. 130.]

AMENDING PENAL CODE IN RELATION TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

AN ACT Amending Sections 695 and 697 of the Penal Code, Being Sections 6886 and 6888, Compiled Laws, and for the Further Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Amendment.] That Section 695 of the Penal Code, the same being Section 6886 of the Compiled Laws, be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 6886. Abusing domestic animals.] Every person who shall negligently or willfully overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, overwork, torture, torment, deprive of necessary food and water, or cruelly beat any animal, and any person who causes or procures an animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, or deprived of necessary food and water or cruelly beaten, and any person who shall work any animal, or cause the same to be worked when unfit for work, and any person who shall unnecessarily expose any animal to heat or cold, or leave the same hitched and uncovered in cold weather or storm, or in the night time, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any officer finding any animal maltreated, abused or unsheltered in any of the manners hereinbefore specified, she cause the same cared for, and the charges therefor shall be a lien upon such animal to be collected as in case of pledge.

§ 2. Amendment.] That Section 697 of the Penal Code, the same being Section 6888 of the Compiled Laws, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 6888. Keeping houses or pits for fighting animals.] Whoever owns, possesses, keeps or trains a bird, dog or other animal, with intent that such bird, dog or other animal, shall be engaged in an exhibition of fighting, or whoever keeps any house, pit or other place to be used in permitting any fight between birds, dogs or other animals, or whoever establishes, promotes, or encourages an exhibition of the fighting of birds, dogs, or other animals is guilty of a misdemeanor.