§ 6-3-1002 — Cruelty to animals

(a) A person commits cruelty to animals if the person:
(i) Knowingly overrides an animal or drives an animal
when overloaded;
(ii) Intentionally or knowingly, unnecessarily
injures or beats an animal;
(iii) Knowingly carries an animal in a manner that
poses undue risk of injury or death;
(iv) Has the charge and custody of any animal and
under circumstances which manifest extreme indifference to the
animal's safety, health or life:
(A) Fails to provide it with proper food, drink
or protection from the weather adequate for the species;
(B) Abandons the animal. Relinquishment of an
animal to a public or private animal shelter or like facility is
not a violation of this subparagraph;
(C) In the case of immediate, obvious, serious
illness or injury to the animal, fails to provide the animal
with appropriate care; or
(D) Keeps any household pet in a manner that
results in chronic or repeated serious physical harm to the
household pet.
(v) Owns, possesses, keeps or trains fowls or dogs
with the intent to allow the dog or fowl to engage in an
exhibition of fighting with another dog or fowl;
(vi) For gain causes or allows any dog to fight with
another dog or any fowl to fight with another fowl;
(vii) Promotes any dog or fowl fighting;
(viii) Knowingly permits any act prohibited under
paragraphs (v) through (vii) of this subsection on any premises
under the person's charge or control; or
(ix) Shoots, poisons or otherwise intentionally acts
to seriously injure or destroy any livestock or domesticated
animal owned by another person while the animal is on property
where the animal is authorized to be present.