Texas Penal Code
§ 42.091 — ATTACK ON ASSISTANCE ANIMAL
PE § 42.091Title 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY · Ch. 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Statute text
View on source(a)A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly attacks, injures, or kills an assistance animal.
(b)A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly incites or permits an animal owned by or otherwise in the custody of the actor to attack, injure, or kill an assistance animal and, as a result of the person's conduct, the assistance animal is attacked, injured, or killed.
(c)An offense under this section is a:
(1)Class A misdemeanor if the actor or an animal owned by or otherwise in the custody of the actor attacks an assistance animal;
(2)state jail felony if the actor or an animal owned by or otherwise in the custody of the actor injures an assistance animal; or
(3)felony of the third degree if the actor or an animal owned by or otherwise in the custody of the actor kills an assistance animal.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 710, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.