[Prior Code, Sec. 3-1; amended by Ord. 679, 9-2-1986]
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall
have the meanings prescribed in this Section except in those cases
where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any horse, mule, donkey, pony, cow, sheep, goat, hog, dog,
cat, rabbit, chicken, goose, duck, turkey, or other animal or fowl.
Not securely confined by a fence or other means on premises
under the control of, or occupied by, the owner, and not under the
control of the owner, a member of his immediate family over 12 years
of age or an agent of the owner, by leash or otherwise, whether on
the owner's premises or not.
Any person, firm or corporation owning, harboring or keeping
an animal. The occupant of any premises on which a domesticated or
tamed animal remains, or to which it customarily returns, for a period
of 10 days or more, shall be deemed to be harboring or keeping the
animal.
A dog which has bitten, or attempted to bite, any person
without undue provocation, or which attacks, or barks or growls at
and acts as if it intends to attack or bite, or bites a person or
persons, or which has killed or mauled another dog.
[Ord. 557, 10-1-1973]
No owner shall permit any animal owned, harbored, possessed,
or kept by him, as a pet or otherwise, including any dog or cat, to
be at large, at large at any time within the City except on real property
owned or in the possession of, by rental or otherwise, the owner or
possessor of the pet or animal. Any animal or pet not on the premises
of the owner as provided in this Section shall be restrained by a
leash by the owner or person in possession of the pet or animal at
all times and in particular while on the streets or public ways of
the City. Any animal running at large within the City limits is subject
to immediate confinement and disposal after a period of time as provided
in this chapter.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-3]
It is unlawful for any person to open any enclosure in which
any animal is confined as required by ordinance so as to turn the
animal at large, or in any manner to turn the animal at large.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-4]
It is unlawful for any person to stake, confine or pasture any
animal on any public school ground or other public property, Federal,
State, City or other, on any railroad right of way, or on any property
without the consent of the person owning or controlling such property.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-5; amended by Ord. 674, 6-2-1986]
A.
No cattle, swine, potbellied pig, bull or jack, shall be kept within
the City except temporarily in a stockyard awaiting transportation,
temporarily at a slaughterhouse awaiting slaughter, or temporarily
for show purposes. The keeping or maintaining or permitting to be
kept or maintained animals in the City as prohibited by this Section
is declared to be a public nuisance.
B.
The City Council finds and declares that breed of canine known as
a pit bull dog to be a vicious, fighting and dangerous animal. From
and after June 2, 1986, it shall be unlawful for any person to keep
and maintain, either at large or confined, upon any premises whatever
in the City that species of canine animal known as a pit bull dog.
The keeping, or maintaining, or permitting to be kept or maintained
of a pit bull dog in the City, as prohibited by this Section is declared
to be a public nuisance.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-7]
It is unlawful for any person to keep or harbor within the City
any dog or other animal which, by barking, howling or otherwise, disturbs
the peace and quiet of any person.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-8]
A.
Every building wherein any animal is kept within the City shall be
constructed of such material and in such manner that it can be kept
clean and sanitary at all times.
B.
Every such building, if located within 200 feet of any tenement or
apartment house, hotel, restaurant, boarding house, retail food store,
building used for educational, religious, or hospital purposes or
residence other than that occupied by the owner or occupant of the
premises upon which such animal is kept, shall be provided with a
watertight and fly-tight receptacle for manure, of such size as to
hold all accumulations of manure. The receptacle shall be emptied
sufficiently often and in such manner as to prevent it from being
or becoming a nuisance, and shall be kept covered at all times except
when open during the deposit or removal of manure or refuse. No manure
shall be allowed to accumulate on such premises except in the receptacle.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-6]
It is unlawful for any person to permit animals to engage in
sexual intercourse in any place except in enclosed places entirely
out of public view.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-9]
No kennel or other establishment wherein animals are kept shall
be maintained closer than 40 feet to any tenement or apartment house,
hotel, restaurant, boarding house, retail food store, building used
for educational, religious or hospital purposes or residence other
than that occupied by the owner or occupant of the premises upon which
the animals are kept. A "kennel," for the purpose of this Section,
is defined as any structure housing four or more dogs or cats which
are older than six months of age.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-10]
Every structure, pen, lot or place wherein an animal is kept
or permitted to be shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition,
devoid of rodents and vermin and free from objectionable odors.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-11]
Manure shall be hauled outside the City in a manner which does
not jeopardize the public health, or else shall be spread evenly upon
the ground and turned under at once or as soon as the weather permits.
[Prior Code, Sec. 3-12]
The Health Officer, upon complaint of any person, shall inspect
any structure or place where an animal is kept, and may do so on his
own initiative. He may issue any such reasonable order as he may deem
necessary to the owner of the animal to cause the animal to be kept
as provided in this chapter or in a manner so as not to constitute
a nuisance. He may make a complaint before the Municipal Judge against
any person for violation of any provision of this chapter or of any
such reasonable order, but this procedure shall not abridge the right
of others to make such complaint.
