Ohio
Anti-Cruelty
StatutesOHIO
REVISED CODE
TITLE IX AGRICULTURE--ANIMALS--FENCES
CHAPTER 959 OFFENSES
RELATING TO DOMESTIC ANIMALS
SPECIFIC OFFENSES
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959.13 Cruelty to animals. (A) No person shall: (1) Torture an animal,
deprive one of necessary sustenance, unnecessarily or cruelly beat, needlessly
mutilate or kill, or impound or confine an animal without supplying it during
such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food and water;
(2) Impound or confine an animal without affording it, during such confinement,
access to shelter from wind, rain, snow, or excessive direct sunlight if it can
reasonably be expected that the animals would otherwise become sick or in some
other way suffer. Division (A)(2) of this section does not apply to animals impounded
or confined prior to slaughter. For the purpose of this section, shelter means
a man-made enclosure, windbreak, sunshade, or natural windbreak or sunshade that
is developed from the earth's contour, tree development, or vegetation.[;] (3)
Carry or convey an animal in a cruel or inhuman[e] manner; (4) Keep animals
other than cattle, poultry or fowl, swine, sheep, or goats in an enclosure without
wholesome exercise and change of air, [n1] nor or feed cows on food that produces
impure or unwholesome milk; (5) Detain livestock in railroad cars or compartments
longer than twenty-eight hours after they are so placed without supplying them
with necessary food, water, and attention, nor permit such stock to be so crowded
as to overlie, crush, wound, or kill each other. (B) Upon the written request
of the owner or person in custody of any particular shipment of livestock, which
written request shall be separate and apart from any printed bill of lading or
other railroad form, the length of time in which such livestock may be detained
in any cars or compartment without food, water, and attention, may be extended
to thirty-six hours without penalty therefor. This section does not prevent the
dehorning of cattle. (C) All fines collected for violations of this section
shall be paid to the society or association for the prevention of cruelty to animals,
if there be such in the county, township, or municipal corporation where such
violation occurred.
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