Reports of animal cruelty and animal welfare violations Chapter 153A. Offenses Against Public Morality and Decency. Care of animal subjected to illegal treatment Article 26. Distributions to counties and cities from Animal Shelter Support Fund Link to Spay/Neuter Program, Article 5 (N.C.G.S.A. Powers magistrate's order execution of order petition notice to owner Appointment of animal cruelty investigators term of office removal badge oath bond Link to Animal Welfare Act Provisions, Article 3 (N.C.G.S.A. Possession of black bear on Jsurrender of bear modification of facilities forfeiture Unlawful to buy, sell or enclose (except as provided) black bear Preliminary injunction care of animal pending hearing on the merits Placing poisonous shrubs and vegetables in public places Altering the brands of and misbranding another's livestock Confinement of animals in motor vehicles Article 49. Living baby chicks or other fowl, or rabbits under eight weeks of age disposing of as pets or novelties forbidden Animal fights and baiting, other than cock fights, dog fights and dog baiting Instigating or promoting cruelty to animals Immunity for veterinarian reporting animal cruelty

Cruelty to animals construction of section This section also includes the civil remedy provisions. Other prohibited acts include abandoning an animal, conveying any animal in a cruel manner, and restraining a dog in a cruel manner. This section also makes promoting or conducting a cock fight a misdemeanor and promoting or conducting a dogfight a felony. If any person shall maliciously torture, mutilate, maim, cruelly beat, disfigure, poison, or kill, or cause or procure to be tortured, mutilated, maimed, cruelly beaten, disfigured, poisoned, or killed any animal, every such offender shall for every such offense be guilty of a Class H felony.

The anti-cruelty statute provides that if any person shall maliciously kill, or cause or procure to be killed, any animal by intentional deprivation of necessary sustenance, that person shall be guilty of a Class H felony. This section comprises the relevant North Carolina animal cruelty statutes.

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