2019 District of Columbia Code
Title 22 - Criminal Offenses and Penalties.
Chapter 10 - Cruelty to Animals.
§ 22–1007. Impounded animals to be supplied with food and water.

Universal Citation: DC Code § 22–1007 (2019)

Any person who shall impound, or cause to be impounded in any pound, any creature, shall supply the same, during such confinement, with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food and water; and in default thereof shall, upon conviction, be punished for every such offense in the same manner provided in § 22-1001.

(Aug. 23, 1871, Leg. Assem., p. 137, ch. 106, § 7.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 22-807.

1973 Ed., § 22-807.

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