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60 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

CHAPTER 48.

[S. B. No. 127.)

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

AN ACT to Amend Section 1 of Chapter 55 of Session Laws of 1891, Relating to Cruelty to Animals.

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

That Section 1 of Chapter 55 of the Laws of 1891, relating to cruelty to animals be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

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

§ 6886. ABUSING DOMESTIC ANIMALS.] Every person who shall 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, shall cause the same to be released and properly cared for and the charges therefor shall be a lien upon such animal to be collected as in case of pledge. And it shall be the duty of all incorporated municipalities that are supplied with water, whole or in part by a system of water works to provide suitable and a sufficient number of watering troughs wherein water for stock shall be kept at all times between May 1st, and November 1st in each year. But nothing in this act contained shall be construed to mean herds of stock which do not properly belong in any such municipality; and if any person or persons shall knowingly water at any such watering trough any animal infected with any infectious disease, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, shall be fined