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AZ - Tucson - Chapter 4: Animals and Fowl (Article 1: In General § 4-3) | Animal Legal & Historical Center
Full Ordinance Name: Tucson, Arizona Code of Ordinances. Chapter 4: ANIMALS AND FOWL. Article 1: In General § 4-3
Primary Citation: Tucson Code § 4-3
Sec. 4-3. Cruelty and neglect. Sec. 4-3(1). Cruelty. Whoever overdrives, overloads, overworks, tortures, torments, cruelly beats, mutilates or unlawfully kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed, and whoever, having charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhumane manner or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unreasonable or unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(g) No person shall give or administer anabolic steroids as defined in the United States Code and the relevant sections of the Code of Federal Regulations, to any greyhound dog in training for or being used for racing within the State of Arizona, in order to artificially enhance performance or suppress estrus. This provision may not be waived as dictated by treatment under direction of a licensed veterinarian.
Sec. 4-3(3). Any of the provisions of this section except for the provisions of Section 4-3(2)(g) may be waived as dictated by treatment under direction of a licensed veterinarian.
Sec. 4-3(5). Penalties. A violation of any provision of this section is punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00). No judge, magistrate or special magistrate may suspend the imposition of the minimum fine prescribed herein. In addition to the fine amount, the penalty may include not more than six (6) months in jail and not more than three (3) years probation, or any combination thereof.
In addition, restitution shall be ordered to the victim. This remedy shall not abridge any civil cause of action by the victim. In addition, upon finding of neglect or cruelty by a city magistrate or special magistrate, the magistrate or special magistrate may order that the owner shall not be permitted to own or control any animal for a period of up to three (3) years. (Ord. No. 7241, § 1, 7-3-89; Ord. No. 8996, § 1, 12-8-97)
(1953 Code, ch. 4, § 29; Ord. No. 6043, § 2, 6-25-84; Ord. No. 8713, § 1, 6-10-96; Ord. No. 11027, § 1, 10-9-12)
State Law References: Cruelty to animals generally, A.R.S. §§ 13-951 to 13-953.http://animallaw.info/statutes/stusazst13_2910.htm#s0 . . .
Sec. 4-9. Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) Animal means any fowl, reptile, amphibian or mammal, except human beings.
(b) Fowl means a bird of any kind.
(c) Owner means any person owning, keeping, possessing, harboring, maintaining or having custody or otherwise having control of an animal.
(d) Wild animal means any animal which is now or historically has been found in the wild, or in the wild state. Wild state means living in its original, natural condition; not domesticated. Any hybrid cross resulting from the cross breeding between two (2) different species or types of animals, including crosses between wild animal species and domestic animals such as dog-wolf crosses, are considered wild animals.
(Ord. No. 4531, § 1, 6-28-76; Ord. No. 6043, § 4, 6-25-84; Ord. No. 8996, § 3, 12-8-97)