§ 8-8-5. Cruelty to animals.

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It is unlawful for any person to overdraw, overload, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, cruelly beat, needlessly mutilate, kill or cause to procure same to be done, any animal, fowl or bird within the meaning of this chapter, or use, buy, sell or exchange any horse or mule when unfit for labor, or abandon any animal upon any public street, alley or any public property. Nothing herein shall prohibit the purchase of animals by laboratories or humane societies incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee.

(Code 1967, § 7-25; Code 1985, § 5-6; Ord. No. 3189, § 1, 3-9-1982)

State law reference

Cruelty to animals, T.C.A. § 39-14-202.

                    
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