[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of New
Buffalo 4-18-1995 by Ord. No. 101. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No
owner or person having charge of cattle, horses, dogs, cats, turkeys,
chickens, pigeons, or domesticated pets, animals, or fowl shall permit
or allow the same to run or to be at large in any of the streets,
alleys, parks or public places of the City. For this purposes of this
chapter, "run at large" is defined as allowing said animal or fowl
to wander, rove, roam, or ramble at will, free from restraint.
B.
Non-domesticated
or wild animals shall not be kept, maintained, or harbored within
the City limits. Cattle, horses, turkeys, chickens, pigeons, and like
animals and fowl are not domesticated animals.
It shall be unlawful for any person to overdrive, overload,
torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, whether feed or
water, or unnecessarily or cruelly beat, whip, or maltreat or needlessly
mutilate, kill, or cruelly expose to inclement weather, or cause or
procure to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, tormented, or deprived
of necessary sustenance, whether food or water, or to be unnecessarily
or cruelly beaten, whipped, or maltreated, or unnecessarily exposed
to inclement weather, as aforesaid, any domestic or non-domesticated
animal.
It shall be unlawful for any person, who is the owner and proper
custodian of any domestic animal, to abandon the same within the City.
[Added 12-17-2013 by Ord.
No. 210]
No person shall feed, make available, nor assist another person
to make food available for ducks, geese, seagulls or other wildlife
on public property, including but not limited to, City parks, marinas
and beaches.
