Any person being the owner or possessor, or having charge or custody of an animal, who willfully and without justifiable excuse abandons the animal is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-361.1
Abandonment of animals
1979, c. 687; 1985 (Reg
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