Chapter 55: Animal Protection And Control

§ 55.02 Animal Neglect

The text in force on August 11, 2010, and every version since 2010.

Unofficial compilation built from the City's published 2010 Code chapters and the text of adopted ordinances. Effective dates are inferred from adoption records; scanned chapters were OCR'd. The City of Tiffin's adopted Code of Ordinances governs. Not legal advice.

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55.02 ANIMAL NEGLECT

It is unlawful for a person who impounds or confines, in any place, an animal, excluding livestock, to fail to supply the animal during confinement with a sufficient quantity of food or water, or to fail to provide a confined dog or cat with adequate shelter, or to torture, deprive of necessary sustenance, mutilate, beat, or kill such animal by any means which causes unjustified pain, distress or suffering.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717B.3)

2010 Code (city website file), in force from August 11, 2010 · source page

In the 2026 draft (a comparison with a draft, not adopted): § 55.02 — wording changed, largely rewritten · compare

History

FromToSourceHowDocument
Aug 11, 2010today 2010 Code base text · text p. 2
May 9, 2019 Ord. 2019-456 repealed · text not changed p. 1

Dates: an Iowa ordinance takes effect when it is published after adoption. Where the clerk's certificate records the publication date it is used; otherwise the adoption date stands in for it. "Not yet consolidated" means the ordinance amends this section but its new text has not been checked into this compilation yet: read the ordinance.

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