CHAPTER XXVI.

 

FURIOUS AND HEEDLESS RIDING, DRIVING, OR CONDUCTING

ANIMALS OR VEHICLES, AND FRIGHTENING ANIMALS.

 

CONTENTS.

 

SECTION 1.   Endangering the personal safety of any person, by furious riding, driving, etc.—Punishment.

2.     Furious riding, etc., where the personal safety of another is not endangered—Punishment.

3.     Driving or leading wild cattle through the street—Punishment.

4.     Frightening or exasperating a horse or other animal, endangering personal safety, etc—Punishment.

5.     Additional punishment on repeated conviction.

 

1. Whoever furiously or heedlessly of the safety of others, rides any horse or other animal, or drives or conducts any vehicle, and thereby imminently endangers the personal safety of any person, shall be punished by a fine not less than five dollars nor exceeding five hundred.

 

2. Whoever furiously or heedlessly of the safety of others, rides any horse or other animal, or drives or conducts any vehicle, though at the time the personal safety of any person be not endangered thereby, shall be punished by fine not less than five dollars nor exceeding one hundred.

 

3. Whoever drives, loads, or otherwise conducts any wild bull, bullock, cattle, or other ferocious or dangerous animal in the street of any village, or in any place of public resort, shall, in case the personal safety of any person is thereby imminently endangered, be punished by fine not less than five dollars, nor exceeding five hundred, or in case the personal safety of any person is not so endangered, by a fine not less than five dollars, nor exceeding one hundred.

 

4.  Whoever frightens, exasperates, or animates a horse or other animal, and thereby endangers the personal safety or the property of any person, or of the animal itself, being that of another, shall be punished, in case the personal safety of any person is thereby imminently   endangered, by fine not less than five dollars, nor exceeding five hundred: otherwise by fine not less than five dollars nor exceeding one hundred.

 

5.  Whoever is convicted of either of the offenses specified in the preceding sections, committed after a previous conviction and sentence for either of such offenses, shall be punished in addition to the fine imposed, by imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding six months.