[Adopted as Ch. 6.04 of the 2003 Municipal Code]
No person shall cruelly treat any animal. Any person who shall
inhumanely beat, underfeed, overload, abandon, or in any other way
cruelly treat an animal shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
Any animal control officer, dog catcher, or other officer authorized
to enforce this chapter or any agent, servant or employee thereof
shall upon conviction of a violation of this section be subject to
immediate dismissal from such position in addition to any other penalty
herein authorized.
It shall be a violation of this chapter for any owner or tenant
of a residential lot having an area of one acre or less to own, keep
or harbor a combination of more than four animals subject to control
under this chapter.
