2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals.
97-41-3 - Authority to kill injured, neglected, etc. animal.
§ 97-41-3. Authority to kill injured, neglected, etc. animal.
Any sheriff, constable, policeman, or agent of a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals may kill, or cause to be killed, any animal found neglected or abandoned, if in the opinion of three respectable citizens it is injured or diseased past recovery, or by age has become useless.
Sources: Codes, 1892, § 1015; 1906, § 1092; Hemingway's 1917, § 818; 1930, § 842; 1942, § 2068.
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