Oklahoma
Anti-Cruelty
StatutesOKLAHOMA
STATUTES
TITLE 21. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
PART VII. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
CHAPTER 67. INJURIES TO ANIMALS
§ 1685. Cruelty
to animals Any person who shall willfully or maliciously overdrive, overload,
torture, destroy or kill, or cruelly beat or injure, maim or mutilate, any animal
in subjugation or captivity, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to himself
or to another, or deprive any such animal of necessary food, drink or shelter;
or who shall cause, procure or permit any such animal to be so overdriven, overloaded,
tortured, destroyed or killed, or cruelly beaten or injured, maimed or mutilated,
or deprived of necessary food, drink or shelter; or who shall willfully set on
foot, instigate, engage in, or in any way further any act of cruelty to any animal,
or any act tending to produce such cruelty, shall be guilty of a felony and shall
be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years,
or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine
not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($ 500.00). Any officer finding an animal so
maltreated or abused shall cause the same to be taken care of, and the charges
therefor shall be a lien upon such animal, to be collected thereon as upon a pledge
or a lien.
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