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TITLE 14. CRIMINAL LAW
CHAPTER 1. CRIMINAL CODE
PART VI. OFFENSES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC GENERALLY
SUBPART B. OFFENSES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC SENSIBILITY
102. Definitions; cruelty to animals
The following words, phrases, and terms as used in R.S. 14:102.1 through R.S. 14:102.4 shall be defined and
construed as follows:
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(1) "Cruel" means every act or failure to act whereby unjustifiable physical pain or suffering is caused or permitted.
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(2) "Abandons" means to completely forsake and desert an animal previously under the custody or possession of a
person without making reasonable arrangements for its proper care, sustenance, and shelter.
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(3) "Proper food" means providing each animal with daily food of sufficient quality and quantity to prevent
unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering by the animal.
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(4) "Proper water" means providing each animal with daily water of sufficient quality and quantity to prevent
unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering by the animal.
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(5) "Proper shelter" means providing each animal with adequate shelter from the elements as required to prevent
unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering by the animal.
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(6) "Proper veterinary care" means providing each animal with veterinary care sufficient to prevent unnecessary or
unjustifiable physical pain or suffering by the animal.
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102.1. Cruelty to animals; simple and aggravated
A. (1) Any person who intentionally or with criminal negligence commits any of the following shall be guilty of
simple cruelty to animals:
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(a) Overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, or overworks a living animal.
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(b) Torments, cruelly beats, or unjustifiably injures any living animal, whether belonging to himself or another.
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(c) Having charge, custody, or possession of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, unjustifiably fails to provide
it with proper food, proper drink, proper shelter, or proper veterinary care.
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(d) Abandons any animal. A person shall not be considered to have abandoned an animal if he delivers to an
animal control center an animal which he found running at large.
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(e) Impounds or confines or causes to be impounded or confined in a pound or other place, a living animal and fails
to supply it during such confinement with proper food, proper drink, and proper shelter.
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(f) Carries, or causes to be carried, a living animal in or upon a vehicle or otherwise, in a cruel or inhumane
manner.
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(g) Unjustifiably administers any poisonous or noxious drug or substance to any domestic animal or unjustifiably
exposes any such drug or substance, with intent that the same shall be taken or swallowed by any domestic animal.
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(h) Injures any animal belonging to another person without legal privilege or consent of the owner.
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(i) Mistreats any living animal by any act or omission whereby unnecessary or unjustifiable physical pain,
suffering, or death is caused to or permitted upon the animal.
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(j) Causes or procures to be done by any person any act enumerated in this Subsection.
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(2)(a) Whoever commits the crime of simple cruelty to animals shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars,
or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
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(b) In addition to any other penalty imposed, a person who commits the crime of cruelty to animals shall be ordered
to perform five eight-hour days of court-approved community service. The community service requirement shall
not be suspended.
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B. (1) Any person who intentionally or with criminal negligence tortures, maims, mutilates, or maliciously kills any
living animal, whether belonging to himself or another, shall be guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals.
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(2) Any person who causes or procures to be done by any person any act designated in this Subsection shall also be
guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals.
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(3) Whoever commits the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars
nor more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than one year nor
more than ten years, or both.
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(4) For purposes of this Subsection, where more than one animal is tortured, maimed, mutilated, or maliciously
killed, each act comprises a separate offense.
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C. This Section shall not apply to the lawful hunting or trapping of wildlife as provided by law, herding of domestic
animals, accepted veterinary practices, and activities carried on for scientific or medical research governed by
accepted standards.
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D. For purposes of this Section, fowl shall not be defined as animals. Only the following birds shall be identified as
animals for purposes of this Section:
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(1) Order Psittaciformes-parrots, parakeets, lovebirds, macaws, cockatiels or cockatoos.
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(2) Order Passeriformes-canaries, starlings, sparrows, flycatches, mynah or myna.
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CRUELTY IS A CRIME
THERE'S NO EXCUSE
FOR ANIMAL ABUSE !
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