General Statutes of Connecticut Chapter 945 — (Offenses Against Humanity and Morality) Cruelty to Animals

Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 945 · 10 active provisions

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-247

Cruelty to animals. Animals engaged in exhibition of fighting. Intentional injury or killing of police animals or dogs in volunteer canine search and rescue teams

(a) Any person who overdrives, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, deprives of necessary sustenance, mutilates or cruelly beats or kills or unjustifiably injures any animal, or who, having impounded or confined any animal, fails to give such animal proper care or neglects to cage or restrain any such animal fr…

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Agriculture & Food Criminal Law Public Safety & Emergency

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-247a

Provision of cannabis to domesticated animals

Any person who provides cannabis, as defined in section 21a-420, to a domesticated animal, shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.

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Alcohol, Tobacco & Gaming

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-248

Sale or treatment of animals unable to work

Any person who sells, offers for sale, trades or gives away any horse for the purpose of being worked, which could not be worked in this state without violating the provisions of section 53-247, or any person who leads, rides or drives an animal on any public highway for any purpose except that of conveying the animal…

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-249

Cruelty to poultry

Any crate or other container used for the purpose of transporting, shipping or holding for sale any live poultry shall be in a sanitary condition and shall be constructed so as to provide sufficient ventilation and warmth, and such poultry, while in such container, shall receive such reasonable care as may be required…

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Agriculture & Food

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-249a

Sale or gift of dyed fowl or rabbits prohibited

Any person who sells or offers for sale at retail or gives away, living chickens, ducklings, other fowl or rabbits, which have been dyed, colored or otherwise treated so as to import to them an artificial color, shall be fined not more than one hundred fifty dollars.

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-250

Use of animals

Any person who uses any animal, including a fish, reptile or bird for the purpose of soliciting any alms, collection, contribution, subscription, donation or payment of money, or uses any animal, including a fish, reptile or bird as a prize or award in the operation of any game or device, or exhibits any wild animal in…

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-251

Docking of horses' tails

(a) Any person who cuts the bone of the tail of any horse for the purpose of docking the tail or who cuts the muscles or tendons of the tail of a horse, or otherwise operates upon it in any manner for the purpose or with the effect of altering the natural carriage of the tail, or who causes or knowingly permits such cu…

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-252

Transportation of animals on railroads

No railroad company, in transporting animals, shall permit them to be confined in cars more than twenty-eight consecutive hours, except when transported in cars in which they have proper food, water, space and opportunity for rest, without unloading them for food, water and rest, for at least five consecutive hours, un…

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Transportation & Motor Vehicles

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-253

Notice of arrest of offender to be given

Any person making an arrest for a violation of the laws relating to cruelty to animals shall use reasonable diligence to give notice thereof to the owner of animals found in the charge or custody of the person arrested and shall properly care and provide for them until their owner takes charge of them, provided the own…

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-254

Causing dependency or delinquency of children

Section 53-254 is repealed.

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