[Adopted as Sec. 15.115 of the Codification]
No person or persons living, lodging, cooking or eating together as a single housekeeping unit shall own or keep more than two cats over the age of two months within any building used wholly or partly for residence purposes.
A. 
Any police officer or any health officer of the Village may kill or impound any cat which he believes, from the appearance or conduct of such cat, to be infected with the disease known as hydrophobia or rabies.
B. 
Any person who shall suspect that any cat is infected with hydrophobia or rabies shall report his or her suspicion to the police or health authorities, describing the cat and giving the name of the owner if known; any such cat shall, upon demand of any police officer or health officer of the Village, be delivered to such officer; if upon examination by the health authorities, the cat shall prove in fact to be infected with said disease, the cat may be killed by any such officer.
C. 
No person shall knowingly harbor or keep any cat infected with hydrophobia or rabies or any cat known to have been bitten by a cat known to have been infected with hydrophobia or rabies, or shall fail to report to the police or health authorities of the Village the existence of a cat which he knows to be infected with hydrophobia or rabies.
A. 
Every owner or keeper of a cat and every person who knows that a cat has bitten or scratched any person shall immediately report such fact to a police officer or the Health Officer of the Village.
B. 
Such cat owner or keeper shall immediately confine said cat within an adequate enclosure for a period of at least 14 days thereafter and shall not release such cat except with the written approval of the Health Officer.
C. 
Any such cat shall be surrendered to the police or Health Officer upon demand.
D. 
In addition to other penalties provided for a violation of this article, any owner or keeper of a cat quarantined pursuant to this article who permits or is responsible for a violation of said quarantine shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit not less than $50 nor more than $100, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of the payment of such forfeiture and the costs of prosecution, shall be imprisoned in the County Jail or House of Correction of Milwaukee County until such forfeiture and costs are paid, but not exceeding 90 days.
No cat shall run at large, and any person may seize or impound any such cat found at large. A cat shall be deemed to be "at large" when it is on any property other than the premises of the owner of the cat.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1188]
The possession of any cat so impounded or seized may be obtained by paying to the Clerk-Treasurer of the Village the sum of $3 plus $4 for each day or fraction thereof during which said cat has been impounded. After any cat has been so impounded for a period of seven days, it shall be destroyed under the direction of the Village Manager or other officer performing similar functions.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1198; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 17, Village Code and Ordinances, Art. I)]
Every cat shall be licensed pursuant to the provisions of Milwaukee County Ordinance Chapter 26. The fact that a cat is without a proper license tag attached to its collar shall be presumptive evidence that it is unlicensed. Humane Officers, licensed by the State of Wisconsin, are hereby authorized to issue Village citations to Village residents for violations of this article.