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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 10-404 Cruelty to or abuse of animal.">
  <section prefix="§" num="10-404" heading="Cruelty to or abuse of animal.">
    <text>No person may act cruelly to or abuse animals, which includes the following actions:</text>
    <para num="(1)">teasing, torturing, tormenting, beating, killing, deliberately inciting, intentionally injuring, mutilating, intentionally hitting with a vehicle, overdriving, overloading, or otherwise abusing an animal;</para>
    <para num="(2)">subjecting an animal to conditions detrimental to its health and general welfare;</para>
    <para num="(3)">administering poison to an animal or knowingly placing or leaving any poisonous or other harmful substance with the intent to injure or kill any animal other than vermin;</para>
    <para num="(4)">inflicting unnecessary suffering or pain on an animal or causing unnecessary injury, suffering, of death of an animal under the individual’s charge or custody;</para>
    <para num="(5)">leaving any domestic animal unattended in a parked, standing, or stopped vehicle in a manner that endangers the health, safety, or welfare of the animal;</para>
    <para num="(6)">confining, tethering, or allowing an animal to remain in outside areas during period of extreme weather without access to proper shelter;</para>
    <para num="(7)">hoarding, accumulating, or maintaining a number of animals in a single location, if the number of animals overwhelms a person’s ability to provide nutrition, sanitation, and veterinary care or the person fails to acknowledge the deteriorating health of the animal or condition of the dwelling or facility; or</para>
    <para num="(8)">causing, arranging, permitting, or authorizing any of the actions listed in this section.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §32(b)(1st cl.), art. 19, §14</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-573</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
