<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 6-5. - Neglect.</div>
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               Animal Neglect:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  Confining an animal without sufficient food, water or exercise, or abandonment of
                  an animal is a criminal offense. Animal services enforcement shall investigate reported
                  incidents involving such action or support investigations by other law enforcement
                  agencies when so requested and refer cases where probable cause exists to the district
                  attorney's office for criminal prosecution.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  The following acts or omissions shall constitute improper confinement or abandonment:
                  
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                  a.
                  
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                  Impounding or confining an animal without an adequate quantity of good and wholesome
                  food and water.
                  
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                  b.
                  
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                  Keeping an animal in any enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air.
                  
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                  c.
                  
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                  Abandoning any animal that is maimed, sick, infirmed, or diseased.
                  
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                  (3)
                  
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                  Neglect shall include any other act or omission defined as neglect in this chapter.
                  
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               (Ord. No.
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                  2020-04
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               , 8-18-2020)
               
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