(a)
It shall be unlawful for a person, other than a city employee or other city authorized agent, to set, trigger, activate or otherwise use, or cause to be set, triggered, activated, or used, any steel jawed, leg-hold trap or “live trap” to capture an animal on city-owned property marked by signage prohibiting hunting.
(b)
It is unlawful for a person to hunt, shoot, intentionally injury or kill any wild bird, animal, or mammal on city property marked by signage prohibiting hunting. Nothing in this provision is intended to prohibit the destruction of poisonous snakes.
(c)
It is a defense to prosecution for the shooting of an animal that the animal shot was a vicious animal which posed an immediate threat to personal or public safety or to the safety of livestock or a domestic pet or other domesticated animal.
(Ordinance 023-2022 adopted 9/6/22)