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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 47-3-610: Unlawful to taunt, torment, tease, beat, strike, or administer desensitizing drug to police dog or horse.

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  1. Title 47 - ANIMALS, LIVESTOCK, AND POULTRY
  2. CHAPTER 3 Dogs and Other Domestic Pets
  3. ARTICLE 11 Teasing, Maltreating, and Injuring Police Dogs Prohibited

It is unlawful for a person to wilfully and maliciously taunt, torment, tease, beat, strike, or administer or subject a desensitizing drug, chemical, or substance to a dog or horse used by a law enforcement department or agency in the performance of the functions or duties of the department or agency or when a dog is placed in a kennel off duty or a horse is placed in a stable off duty, or to interfere or meddle with a dog or horse used by a law enforcement department or agency in the performance of the functions or duties of the department or agency.

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