§ 5-2. Cruelty to animals.  


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  • Any person who shall, within the city, overdrive, overload, ill-treat, torture, torment, or unnecessarily or cruelly whip, beat, or needlessly mutilate or kill, or cause or procure such treatment for any animal, in each and every instance, shall be deemed guilty of an offense.

(Code 1975, § 245.010)

State law reference

Cruelty to animals generally, RSMo 578.055.