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~ ORDINANCE TO ~MF~k.~ SECTION 3-9 OF TP~ CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOb~H~ VIRC-IN~ 1961~ PERTAINING TO CR~Y¥ TO ~I~LS SO AS TO CO~FOP~M TO CHANGES IN THE G ,~TL%tL LAW F~NAC~ BY ~E G~qEPJ~L ASS~,~LY OF \~IRGI~TA AT ITS 1968 SESSION. MHERK~S, the City of Portsmouth is authorized to erect ordinsnces of the Code of Virginia~ provided such ordip~ces are substantially con- sistent ~th the state law; ¥~E~, the General Assembly of Virginia ay its 1968 session ~mended certaf~ provisio~s of the Code of Virginia, t950; and ~&S~ it is therefore necessary to amend section 3-9 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth~ Virginia, 1961, so as to make said section core, cfm to the chs.nges in the Code of Virginia, 1950, enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia at its 1968 session. NOW, ~0RE, BE IT 0RDAI~7~ by the Council of the City of Ports- mouth, Virginia; t. Tb~t Section 3-9 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virgir~a, 1961, be ~ended and reordained to read as follows: Section 3-9. C~elty to Dnai~als. Any person who (1) overrides, overdrives~ overloads, tortures~ ill-treats~ abandons~ willfully inflicts ir2aumane imjury or pekin not cormected with bonafide scientific or medical experimentation to, or cruelly or unnecessarily beats, ~a~ns~ mutilates~ or kills ~ny smLmal~ whether belongi~ to ~himself or another, or d~orives ~v s~uLr~l of necessary sustems~nce, food, or ~rimk~ or causes smy of the above th~gs, or being the o~.mer of such arbitral pe~ts such acts to be done by another, or (2) v~dlfully sets on foot, instigates~ engages im~ or in any way ~urthers any act of cruelty to any aniw.~l; or (3) shall cs~u~j or cause to be ca~ried in or npom any vehicle or vessel or otherwise any anL~a.1 in a cruel, brutal~ or inhuman m~r~er, so as to produce torture or mn- necessary sufferi~g~ shall be guility of a misdemeanor; but notching in t~is section shall be construed to prohfoit the dehor~oirg of cattle. 2. A~m emergency exists smd-this ordinance sbm~lt ts_ke effect from its passage. Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, V~rginia, at a meeting held October l, 1968. Teste: City Clerk