(A) No owner or operator of any commercial animal establishment shall fail to provide his animals with sufficient good and wholesome food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, and with humane care and treatment.

(B) No person shall beat, cruelly ill treat, torment, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate, or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight, or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.

(C) No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal.

(D) No person shall crop or cause the cropping of any animal's ears or tail, except when a licensed veterinarian issues a signed certificate that the operation is necessary for the dog's appearance, health and comfort, and in no event shall any person except a licensed veterinarian perform such an operation.

(E) Chickens or ducklings younger than eight (8) weeks of age may not be sold in quantities of less than twenty-five (25) to a single purchaser.

(F) No person shall give away any live animals, fish, reptile, or bird as a prize for, or as an inducement to enter, any contest, game, or other competition. or an inducement to enter a place of amusement; or offer such vertebrate as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.

(G) Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render such assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report such injury or death to the animal's owner; in the event the owner cannot be ascertained and located, such operator shall at once report the accident to the City Police Department or to the Crawford County Humane Society.

(H) No person shall intentionally or negligently expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be liable to be eaten by any animal, provided that it shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on his own property common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substances.

(I) No person shall permit any animal to be confined to any parked motor vehicle without adequate ventilation and temperature control sufficient to insure its comfort.

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