LAWS RELATING TO ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 85 



CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 



GENERAL PROVISIONS. 

 Penal Code. 



369&. Any officer, agent or conductor of any company or ce f 

 person operating any railroad in this state, who in carrying 

 and transporting cattle, sheep, or swine in carload lots, confines tion - 

 the same in cars for a longer period than thirty-six consecutive 

 hours, without unloading for rest, water and feeding, for a 

 period of at least ten consecutive hours, is guilty of a misde- 

 meanor. In estimating such time of confinement, the period 

 during which the animals have been confined without such rest 

 on connecting roads from which they are received, must be com- 

 puted. In case the owner or person in charge of such animals 

 refuses or neglects to pay for the care and feed of animals so 

 rested, the company or person operating such railroad may 

 charge the expense thereof to the owner or consignee and retain 

 a lien upon the animals therefor until the same is paid. (As 

 amended, Stats. 1905, p. 672.) 



369e. Any person who leads, drives, or conducts any beast Animals 

 along the track of a railroad, except where the railroad is built along" 8 

 within the limits of a public highway, or who places, or having k g ad 

 the right to prevent it, suffers any animal to be placed within 

 the fences thereof for grazing or other purposes, is guilty of a 

 misdemeanor. (As amended, Stats. 1905, p. 767.) 



384c. Every person who wilfully or negligently, while Animals 

 hunting upon the inclosed lands of another, kills, maims, or p e ^' e n d s by 

 wounds an animal, the property of another, is guilty of a mis- hunting, 

 demeanor. (As amended, Stats. 1907, p. 566.) 



597. Every person who maliciously kills, maims, or wounds cruelty to 

 an animal, the property of another, or who overdrives, over- ammals> 

 loads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, 

 deprives of necessary sustenance, drink or shelter, cruelly 

 beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills any animal, or causes or pro- 

 cures any animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when 

 overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of 

 necessary sustenance, drink or shelter, or to be cruelly beaten, 

 mutilated or cruelly killed; and whoever, having the charge or 

 custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, subjects 

 any animal to needless suffering, or inflicts unnecessary cruelty 

 upon the same, or in any manner abuses any animal, or fails to 

 provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter or protection 

 from the weather, or who drives, rides or otherwise uses the 

 same when unfit for labor, is for every such offense, guilty of a 

 misdemeanor. (As amended, Stats. 1909, p. 999.) 



597a. Whoever carries or causes to be carried in or upon unnecessary 

 any vehicle or otherwise any domestic animal in a cruel or su f e ,J in f or 

 inhuman manner, or knowingly and wilfully authorizes or animals. 

 permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering, or 

 cruelty of any kind, is guilty of a misdemeanor ; and whenever 



