88 STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Permitting 597/. Every owner, driver, or possessor of any animal, who 

 ^without shall permit the same to be in any building, inclosure, lane, 

 care - street, square, or lot, of any city, city and county, or township, 



without proper care and attention, shall, on conviction, be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. And it shall be the duty of 

 any peace officer, or officer of the humane society, to take pos- 

 session of the animal so abandoned or neglected and care for 

 the same until it is redeemed by the owner or claimant, and 

 the cost of caring for such animal shall be a lien on the same 

 until the charges are paid. Every sick, disabled, infirm, or 

 crippled animal which shall be abandoned in any city, city 

 and county, or township, may, if after due search no owner 

 can be found therefor, be killed by such officer; and it shall 

 be the duty of all peace officers, or an officer of said society, 

 to cause the same to be killed on information of such abandon- 

 ment. Such officer may likewise take charge of any animal 

 that by reason of lameness, sickness, feebleness, or neglect, is 

 unfit for the labor it is performing, or that in any other man- 

 ner is being cruelly treated ; and, if such animal is not then in 

 the custody of its owner, such officer shall give notice thereof 

 to such owner, if known, and may provide suitable care for 

 such animal until it is deemed to be in a suitable condition to 

 be delivered to such owner, and any necessary expenses which 

 may be incurred for taking care of and keeping the same shall 

 be a lien thereon, to be paid before the same can be lawfully 

 recovered. (Added, Stats.- 1905, p. 680.) 



stSns f etc 5970 Every person who lets to mares or jennies any 

 c stallion or jack within the limits of any city, town, or village, 

 or within four hundred yards thereof, except in an inclosure 

 sufficient to obstruct the view of all the inhabitants within 

 such limits, and every person in charge of any stallion, bull, 

 boar, ram, or buck goat who turns out or permits such animal 

 to be turned out or run at large in any county, is guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and punishable by a fine -of not less than five or 

 more than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 

 jail not less than thirty days or by both such fine and impris- 

 onment. (Added, Stats. 1905, p. 678.) 



Prosecutions. 599^. When complaint is made, on oath, to any magis- 

 trate authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases, that 

 the complainant believes that any provision of law relating 

 to, or in any way affecting, dumb animals or birds, is being, 

 or is about to be violated in any particular building or place, 

 such magistrate must issue and deliver immediately a warrant 

 directed to any sheriff, constable, police or peace officer, or 

 officer of any incorporated association qualified as provided by 

 law, authorizing him to enter and search such building or 

 place, and to arrest any person there present violating, or 

 attempting to violate, any law relating to, or in any way affect- 

 ing, dumb animals or birds, and to bring such person before 

 some court or magistrate of competent jurisdiction, within the 

 city, city and county, or township within which such offense has 

 been committed or attempted, to be dealt with according to 



