Note: Prior history: 1953 Code §§ 4738, 4739(i)—(ii), 4739.1; Ord. 392 as amended by 395.
It shall be unlawful to keep any equine, bovine, swine, sheep or goat within the corporate city limits without a permit from the director of animal services. Every such person desiring to keep such livestock shall file an application for a permit with the animal services manager, containing such information as the animal services manager requires.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
No person shall keep or maintain, or cause to be kept or maintained, within the corporate city limits any poultry or rabbits, except under the following conditions:
(1) 
Such poultry and animals shall, under no circumstances, be permitted to run at large, but shall be at all times confined within a suitable house or coop with enclosed runway.
(2) 
Such house or coop runway shall, at all times, be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
Every owner, keeper, custodian or harborer of livestock shall erect and/or maintain a fence, as described in this section, to contain and confine all livestock kept or maintained on his or her premises.
Such fence shall be sufficiently good, strong and substantial as to prevent the ingress and egress of livestock. No wire fence is a good and substantial fence within the meaning of this section unless it has three tightly stretched barbed wires securely fastened to posts of reasonable strength, firmly set into the ground not more than one rod apart, one of which wires shall be at least four feet above the surface of the ground. Any kind of wire or other fence of a height, strength and capacity equal to or greater than the wire fence described in this section is a good and substantial fence within the meaning of this section. Cattle guards of such width, depth, rail spacing and construction as will effectively turn livestock are also a good and substantial fence.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, stake or cause or permit any animal to be placed, staked or to graze or be upon the land of another without the written consent of the owner or other authorized person, or upon public lands or highways, or to allow any such animal described in this chapter to run at large.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
The animal services manager shall take into custody and impound any animal found in violation of this chapter and he or she shall have a lien upon such animal or animals sufficient to secure the payment of all expenses incurred by reason of his or her seizing, keeping and caring for such animal or animals.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
(a) 
If no person claims the animal or animals impounded under this chapter within five days, or if a person does appear and claims the animal or animals but fails to pay the expenses as provided in Chapter 6.10, the animal services manager shall proceed to sell, or cause to be sold, such animal or animals, except bovines or equines, at public sale in accordance with general procedure provided in the law concerning the sale or execution of personal property.
(b) 
If the animal impounded under this chapter is of a value less than ten dollars, as determined by the animal services manager, and has not been claimed, the animal services manager may sell such animal, except bovines and equines, at private sale without notice.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)