Alaska
Anti-Cruelty StatutesTitle
11. Criminal Law.
Chapter 61. Offenses Against Public Order.
Article
1. Riot, Disorderly Conduct, and Related Offenses. Sec.
11.61.140. Cruelty to animals (a)
A person commits the crime of cruelty to animals if the person:
- (1) knowingly inflicts
severe physical pain or prolonged suffering on an animal;
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(2) with criminal negligence, fails to care for an animal and, as a result, causes
the death of the animal or causes severe physical pain or prolonged suffering
to the animal; or
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(3) kills an animal by the use of a decompression chamber.
(b)
It is a defense to a prosecution under (a)(1) or (2) of this section that
the conduct of the defendant - (1) conformed to accepted veterinary
or animal husbandry practice;
- (2) was part of scientific research governed
by accepted standards;
- (3) was necessarily incident to lawful hunting
or trapping activities; or
- (4) conformed to professionally accepted training
and disciplinary methods.
(c) In this section, "animal"
means a vertebrate living creature not a human being, but does not include fish.
(d) Cruelty to animals is a class A misdemeanor.
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