[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.