97-41-3 - Authority to kill injured, neglected, etc. animal. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 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.