Hawaii
Anti-Cruelty StatutesHAWAII
REVISED STATUTES
DIVISION 5. CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
TITLE 37.
HAWAII PENAL CODE
CHAPTER 711. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER §
§ 711-1109. Cruelty to animals
(1) A person commits the offense of cruelty to animals if the person intentionally,
knowingly, or recklessly: - (a)
Overdrives, overloads, tortures, torments, cruelly beats or starves any animal,
or causes or procures the overdriving, overloading, torture, torment, cruel beating
or starving of any animal, or deprives a pet animal of necessary sustenance or
causes such deprivation;
- (b)
Mutilates, poisons, or kills without need any animal other than insects, vermin,
or other pests;
- (c)
Keeps, uses, or in any way is connected with or interested in the management of,
or receives money for the admission of any person to, any place kept or used for
the purpose of fighting or baiting any bull, bear, dog, cock, or other animal,
and every person who encourages, aids, or assists therein, or who permits or suffers
any place to be so kept or used;
- (d)
Carries or causes to be carried, in or upon any vehicle or other conveyance, any
animal in a cruel or inhumane manner; or
- (e)
Assists another in the commission of any act of cruelty to any animal.
(2)
Subsection (1)(a), (b), (d), (e) and the following subsection (3) are not applicable
to accepted veterinary practices and to activities carried on for scientific research
governed by standards of accepted educational or medicinal practices. (3)
Whenever any domestic animal is so severely injured that there is no reasonable
probability that its life or usefulness can be saved, the animal may be immediately
destroyed. (4)
Cruelty to animals is a misdemeanor.
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