Section 10-602 - Legislative intent.
§ 10-602. Legislative intent.
It is the intent of the General Assembly that each animal in the State be protected from intentional cruelty, including animals that are:
(1) privately owned;
(2) strays;
(3) domesticated;
(4) feral;
(5) farm animals;
(6) corporately or institutionally owned; or
(7) used in privately, locally, State, or federally funded scientific or medical activities.
[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 59(a); 2002, ch. 26, § 2.]