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Section 3Sec./Art. 3
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A new Section 7 is hereby inserted after Section 6 of the same Act to read as follows:
"SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person who has custody of an animal to abandon the animal.
"If any person being the owner or having charge or control of any animal shall without reasonable cause or excuse abandon it, whether permanently or not, without providing for the care of that animal, such act shall constitute maltreatment under Section 9.
"If the animal is left in circumstances likely to cause the animal any unnecessary suffering, or if this abandonment results in the death of the animal, the person liable shall suffer the maximum penalty.
"Abandonment means the relinquishment of all right, title, claim, or possession of the animal with the intention of not reclaiming it or resuming its ownership or possession."
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