TITLE 4
Animals and Animal Husbandry
CHAPTER 4-1
Cruelty to Animals
SECTION 4-1-1
 § 4-1-3 Unnecessary cruelty
   (a) Every owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of any animal, who cruelly drives or works that animal when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandons that animal, or who carries that animal, or causes that animal to be carried, in or upon any vehicle or otherwise in a cruel or inhuman manner, or willfully authorizes or permits that animal to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind, or who places or causes to have placed on any animal any substance that may produce irritation or pain, or that is declared a hazardous substance by the U.S. food and drug administration or by the state department of health, shall be punished for each offense in the manner provided in § 4-1-2.
  (b) The substances proscribed by subsection (a) do not include any drug having curative and therapeutic effect for disease in animals and which is prepared and intended for veterinary use.
