[Amended 6-16-1994 by Ord. No. 82-3]
It is unlawful for any person to allow or permit any animal to run at large in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, vacant lot, public property, other enclosed place in the City or private property not belonging to owner of animal. Any animal permitted to run at large in violation of this section is declared to be a nuisance, a menace to the public health and safety and shall be taken up and impounded as provided in § 118-4.
It is unlawful for any person to chain, stake out, graze or
herd any animal on any unenclosed premises in such a manner that such
an animal may go beyond the designated area.
It is unlawful for any person to keep or harbor any vicious
animal. Any person attacked by a vicious animal while on public property
may use reasonable force to repel said attack. After a judicial determination
that an animal is vicious, the owner or keeper of such vicious animal
shall destroy it humanely or turn such animal over to the City for
destruction.
[Added 6-16-1994 by Ord. No. 82-3]
No person shall maintain a dangerous animal in a manner which
constitutes a threat to any person or other animal.
It is unlawful for any person to allow any animal to persistently
or continuously bark, howl or make noise common to their species,
or otherwise to disturb the peace and quiet of the inhabitants of
the City of Las Vegas, or to keep or maintain animals in such a manner
as to disturb by noxious or offensive odors, or otherwise endanger
the health and welfare of another person.
It is unlawful for the owner of any animal to permit, either
willfully or through failure to exercise due care or control, any
such animal to commit any nuisance upon any property other than the
owners of the animal, and then only so long as no other provision
of this chapter is violated.
It is unlawful for any person to remove any license tag from
one animal to another or to remove a license tag from an estray without
lawful permission. It is unlawful for any person to manufacture or
cause to be manufactured or to have in his possession or under his
control, a stolen, counterfeit, or forged animal license tag, rabies
vaccination certificate or other form of animal or premises licensing.
It is unlawful for any person to break open any pound, center,
or animal control vehicle wherein animals are impounded by the City
of Las Vegas or in any other way to remove or assist in the removal
of any animal from such pound, center or vehicle without lawful permission.
It is unlawful for any person owning, operating or maintaining
any public place of business or conveyance into which the general
public is invited for any business purpose to debar or exclude therefrom
any dog which has been trained to assist the blind or deaf, provided
that such dog be in the company of the blind or deaf person whom it
was trained to assist in conformance with the law.
