[Ord. No. 2022-17, 11-9-2022]
A. Prohibitions.
1. No person shall feed or in any manner provide any attractant to any
feral cat or any wildlife within the corporate limits of the City.
2. No person shall leave, store, or maintain any attractant in a manner,
area, or location accessible to any feral cat or wild animals within
the corporate limits of the City.
B. Definitions.
When used in this Section, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ABANDONED
To drop off or leave a cat on a street, road, or highway,
or in a public place, or on the private property of another, or fail
to provide an animal adequate sustenance for a period of forty-eight
(48) hours.
FERAL CAT
Cat(s) which are abandoned cats or cats born in the wild
without City licenses or tags.
WILDLIFE
All wild birds, mammals, fish and other aquatic and amphibious
forms, and all other wild animals, regardless of classification, whether
resident, migratory or imported, protected, or unprotected, and shall
extend to and include any and every part of any individual species
of wildlife as defined in Section 252.020(3), RSMo., or as amended.
C. Exceptions.
1. Any person who feeds or provides food to a trapped, injured, or unweaned
wild animal between the time that the City of Weatherby Lake Police
Department or its designated agent is notified of the wild animal
and the wild animal is picked up by the City of Weatherby Lake Police
Department or its designated agent.
2. Any person with a bird feeder intended to feed songbirds, provided
the feeder is suspended on a cable or other device to make it inaccessible
to wild animals, and the area below the feeder is kept free from the
accumulation of seed debris.
3. Nothing in this Section shall restrict citizens' ability to maintain
ornamental plants or vegetable gardens on their property, provided
all reasonable efforts are made to reduce wild animals feeding off
such ornamental plants or vegetable gardens.
4. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the actions of agents of the
City of Weatherby Lake and its Police Department or the Missouri Department
of Conservation, their authorized agents or other individual(s) acting
lawfully pursuant to wildlife or waterfowl management programs duly
authorized by the City of Weatherby Lake, the State of Missouri, or
the Federal Government of the United States of America.
[CC 1984 §16.070B; Ord. No. 267, 7-17-1984; Ord. No.
531, 10-20-1998]
A. The
Weatherby Lake Police Officers, Weatherby Lake Public Work employees
and such other citizens as may be designated by the Board of Alderpersons,
have the authority to possess and discharge explosive devices described
in this Section for the purpose of waterfowl pest control.
B. The
above-mentioned persons shall have the authority to possess and discharge
launchers, starter's pistols and such other devices as may be designated
by the Board of Alderpersons for the purpose of waterfowl pest control.
This Section shall not be construed to allow any of the designated
persons to discharge firearms or devices for purposes other than waterfowl
pest control.
C. The
Board of Alderpersons may establish in writing the hours of the day
during which persons on the approved list shall have authority to
discharge devices approved by the Board of Alderpersons for the purpose
of waterfowl pest control only. It shall be unlawful for a person
to discharge any of the devices during a time period not approved
by the Board of Alderpersons.