Sec. 329. Animals—cruelty to—penalty, etc.
It shall be unlawful for any person to overdrive, overload, or
to drive when overloaded or unfit for work, or deprive of necessary
sustenance, or to torture, torment, or cruelly beat, mutilate,
or cause or procure to be so overdriven, overloaded, overworked,
deprived of necessary sustenance, tortured, tormented,
cruelly beaten or mutilated, any animal, either as owner or otherwise.
The word "animal" shall be held to include every living
dumb creature. The words "torture" and "torment" shall be
held to include every act, omission or neglect, whereby unnecessary
or unjustifiable physical pain or suffering is caused or permitted;
and the words "owner" and "person" shall be held to
include corporations as well as individuals; and the knowledge
and acts of any person employed by corporations in regard to
animals transported, owned or employed by or in the custody of
such corporation, shall be held to be the act and knowledge of
such corporation. Any one convicted of violating this section
shall be fined not less than $5.00, nor more than $50.00 for each
offense.
