(a) 
Basic care.
It shall be unlawful for the owner/custodian of any animal to refuse or fail to provide such animal with sufficient wholesome and nutritious food, water in sufficient quantities, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, grooming when lack thereof would adversely affect the health of the animal, and humane care and treatment, or to fail to provide adequate shelter and protection from the weather. All pens, cages or other enclosures where animals are kept shall be securely built and maintained, be adequate in size for the kind and number of animals contained therein, contain adequate and appropriate bedding and be maintained in a sanitary condition; such enclosures shall be cleaned and maintained so as to not become offensive.
(b) 
Leaving animal in parked vehicle.
It shall be unlawful to leave any animal in any standing or parked vehicle in such a way as to endanger the animal’s health and safety. Any police officer is authorized to use reasonable force, including the breaking of a side window, to remove an animal from a vehicle whenever it appears the animal’s health or safety is or soon will be endangered, and said endangered or neglected animal shall be impounded.
(c) 
Abandonment.
It shall be unlawful for any owner/custodian of any animal to willfully abandon such animal, abandonment consisting of leaving such animal for a period in excess of twenty-four (24) hours, without providing for someone to feed, water and check the animal’s condition. No owner shall leave an animal by a roadside or other area or leave such animal on either public or private property without the property owner’s consent. An animal so left shall be deemed abandoned. In the event that an animal is found so abandoned, such animal may be taken to the local animal shelter.
(d) 
Cruelty to animals.
No owner/custodian shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, mentally abuse, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate, or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight, or other combat between animals. No owner/custodian shall neglect to provide basic care to an animal.
(e) 
Duties of person striking animal with vehicle.
Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render such assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report such injury or death to the animal’s owner; in the event the owner cannot be ascertained and located, such operator shall at once report the accident to the appropriate law enforcement agency or to the local humane society.
(Ordinance 319, secs. 2.1.1–2.1.5, adopted 3/7/11)
No person or household shall keep or harbor more than four (4) animals of the same species at any one residential location. A litter under four (4) months of age shall not be counted for the purpose of this section.
(Ordinance 319, sec. 2.1.6, adopted 3/7/11)
(a) 
Leaving on or near street or other public ground.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave the carcass of any animal which died in the actual possession or ownership of such person in any public ground, road, street or alley or within fifty (50) yards of such ground, street, alley or public road.
(b) 
Disposition.
All animal carcasses shall be properly buried or hauled to such a distance beyond the city as not to be offensive to the residents of the vicinity or to persons passing.
(Ordinance 319, secs. 2.1.7, 2.1.8, adopted 3/7/11)
(a) 
If any animal without a license tag or other identifying marker is found in a state of pain or suffering or becomes so during confinement, the city or its agent may dispose of the animal in any humane manner without complying with the three-day (72-hour) waiting period.
(b) 
If the owner or keeper of an animal found in a state of pain or suffering refuses to assume responsibility to care for the animal, the animal control officer may dispose of the animal in a humane manner.
(Ordinance 319, sec. 2.1.9, adopted 3/7/11)
Animals shall not be tied, staked or tethered between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. and during extreme weather conditions. Animals shall not be inhumanely chained, tied, fastened or otherwise tethered. The following conditions must be met:
(1) 
Only one animal may be tethered to each cable run.
(2) 
The tether must be attached to a properly fitting collar or harness worn by the animal, with enough room between the collar and the animal’s throat through which two fingers may fit. Choke collars and pinch collars are prohibited for purposes of tethering an animal to a cable run.
(3) 
There must be a swivel on at least one end of the tether to minimize tangling of the tether.
(4) 
The tether and cable run must be of adequate size and strength to effectively restrain the animal and must not weigh more than 1/8 of the animal’s body weight.
(5) 
The cable run must be at least fifteen feet in length and mounted to either a swivel tie-out or to a cable/trolley/pulley system.
(6) 
The length of the tether from the cable run to the animal’s collar should allow access to the maximum available exercise area and should allow continuous access to water, food, shelter, shade, and a dry area. The animal must be able to have room to urinate or defecate in a separate area from the area where it must eat, drink or lie down. The tether system must be of appropriate configuration to confine the animal to the owner’s property, to prevent the tether from extending over an object or an edge that could result in injury or strangulation of the animal, and to prevent the tether from becoming entangled with other objects or animals.
(7) 
Any animal tethered as described in subsections (1) through (6) above must be removed from the tether at least once a day for adequate exercise.
(Ordinance 319, sec. 2.2.1, adopted 3/7/11)
Any unspayed female dog or cat in the state of estrus (heat) shall be humanely confined during such period of time in a house, building or secure enclosure to ensure that an unwanted pregnancy will not occur. Owners who do not comply shall be ordered to remove the animal in heat to a veterinary hospital or boarding facility. All expenses incurred as a result of this confinement shall be borne by the owner.
(Ordinance 319, sec. 2.2.2, adopted 3/7/11)
(a) 
The commission of any of the following acts or permitting any of the following conditions to exist on or to one’s property within the city shall constitute a nuisance to the health, safety, and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants and shall be unlawful, to wit:
(1) 
The keeping of any animal in such a manner as to become a hazard to the general health and welfare of the community. Any such person who shall harbor or keep [any animal] on his or her premises, or in or about premises under his/her control, and allows the premises to give off obnoxious or offensive odors to a person of ordinary sensitivity in the vicinity or the public at large due to the activity or presence of such animals shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during or on which such violation occurs or continues.
(2) 
Whenever any complaint is made to the city as to the unsanitary condition or offensive odors resulting from the keeping of such livestock, fowl, or pet animal or if such shall come to the attention of the city without complaint, the city shall investigate the same, and if such unsanitary condition is found to exist, the same shall constitute a nuisance. If such unsanitary condition is not remedied within twenty-four (24) hours thereafter, complaint shall be filed against such owner, keeper or possessor for maintaining a nuisance in the city.
(3) 
The keeping of pet animals that enter the property of another and commit any act that disturbs any person of ordinary sensitivity.
(4) 
The keeping of an animal that barks, whines, meows, howls or makes other annoying, loud or unusual vocalizations or noises in an excessive, continuous or unreasonable fashion or at unreasonable hours that disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood or any person of ordinary sensibility shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during or on which such violation occurs or continues.
(5) 
Dog(s) on school grounds that are not under direct control by a leash of sufficient strength to control the actions of the dog by its owner.
(b) 
Additional nuisance matters include but are not limited to:
(1) 
Damages to property of anyone other than its owner;
(2) 
Molests or intimidates pedestrians or passersby;
(3) 
Chases vehicles;
(4) 
Is offensive or dangerous to the public health, safety, or welfare by virtue of the number and/or types of animals maintained;
(5) 
Attacks other domestic animals.
(c) 
The commission of any of the following acts or permitting any of the following conditions to exist on city property or to private property within the city shall constitute a nuisance to the health, safety, and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants and shall be unlawful, to wit:
(1) 
An owner, harborer or other person in possession of a dog commits an offense if he knowingly permits, or by sufficient control allows, the dog to defecate in the city on private or public property and fails to remove and depose of any excreta the dog deposits.
(2) 
An owner, harborer or other person in possession of a dog commits an offense if he knowingly permits the dog to enter or be present on private property located in a public place and fails to have in his possession materials or implements that, either alone or in combination with each other, can be used to immediately and in a sanitary and lawful manner both remove and dispose of any excreta the dog may deposit on the property.
(Ordinance 319, sec. 2.3, adopted 3/7/11; Ordinance 340 adopted 11/2/15)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for an owner [or] any other person who has such pet animal under his or her possession or care to allow or permit such animal to run or be at large upon any public highway, street, alley, court, square, park, sidewalk or any other public ground or public property.
(b) 
It is an exception to subsection (a) of this section that:
(1) 
The animal is a law enforcement service animal under the supervision of a peace officer in the performance of his or her official duties;
(2) 
The animal is a service animal for the impaired or handicapped.
(c) 
Each animal in violation of this section constitutes a separate offense.
(Ordinance 319, sec. 2.5, adopted 3/7/11)