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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 10

except while engaged in or on the way to or returning from a bona
fide trap shoot, sport shooting event, or any organized civic or
military activity.

59.

Any person who (1) overdrives, overloads, deprives of
necessary sustenance, tortures, torments, cruelly beats,
mutilates or cruelly kills; or (2) causes, procures or authorizes
these acts; or (3) having the charge or custody of an animal,
either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary suffering or
pain upon the animal, or unnecessarily fails to provide the
animal with nutritious food in sufficient quantity, necessary
veterinary care, proper drink, air, space, shelter or protection
from the weather; or (4) uses or permits a dog to be used in,
arranges or conducts a dogfight; or (5) uses or permits to be
used any bird, fowl, or cock for the purpose of fighting with any
other animal, which is commonly known as cockfighting, is guilty
of a misdemeanor [and shall be] punishable by a fine not
exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or
both. Customary and normal veterinary and agricultural husbandry
practices including but not limited to dehorning, castration,
docking tails, and limit feeding, are not covered by the
provisions of this section. In the case of activities in which
physical pain may unavoidably be caused to animals, such as food
processing, pest elimination, animal training, and hunting,
cruelty shall mean a failure to employ the most humane method
reasonably available. It is the intention of the General
Assembly that all animals, whether they be privately owned,
strays, domesticated, feral, farm, corporately or institutionally
owned, under private, local, State, or federally funded
scientific or medical activities, or otherwise being situated in
Maryland shall be protected from intentional cruelty, but that no
person shall be liable for criminal prosecution for normal human
activities to which the infliction of pain to an animal is purely
incidental and unavoidable.

145.

(e) (1) A person who is authorized by an issuer to furnish
money, goods, services or anything else of value upon
presentation of a credit card by the cardholder, or any agent or
[employees] EMPLOYEE of such person, who, with intent to defraud
the issuer or the cardholder, furnishes money, goods, services or
anything else of value upon presentation of a credit card
obtained or retained in violation of subsection (c) of this
section or a credit card which he knows is forged violates this
subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in
subsection (h)(1) of this section, if the value of all money,
goods, services and other things of value furnished in violation
of this subsection does not exceed $300 and is subject to the
penalties set forth in subsection (h)(2) of this section if such
value exceeds $300.