No owner or keeper of a dog shall allow, permit or suffer such
dog, whether licensed or unlicensed, to be or run at large in or upon
any public place or premises, or in or upon any unenclosed private
place or premises, or in or upon any enclosed private place or premises
other than those of said owner or keeper except with the consent of
the person in charge of said private place or premises, unless such
dog is securely restrained by a substantial leash not exceeding six
feet in length and is in charge and control of a person competent
to keep such dog under effective control.
(Prior code § 5530; Ord. 910 § 2, 1971)
(a)
It is unlawful for any person to knowingly keep, allow to be kept,
or permit to remain upon premises under the control of such person,
any animal which habitually barks, whines, or makes loud or unusual
noises so as to unreasonably disturb the peace and quiet of the neighborhood
or interfere with any person of ordinary sensitiveness in the reasonable
and comfortable enjoyment of life and property.
(b)
This section shall not be construed to prohibit the keeping of any
watch dog, provided, the keeper thereof takes immediate steps to quiet
such dog whenever it barks, and provided further that such keeper
never leaves such dog unat-tended on the premises in a place where
its barking, if prolonged or repeated an undue number of times, unreasonably
disturbs a person of ordinary sensitiveness.
(Prior code § 5531; Ord. 910 § 2, 1971; Ord. 1323 § 1, 1989)
(a)
No person owning, keeping or having in his or her care or custody
any dog shall knowingly fail, refuse or neglect to clean up any feces
of such dog immediately and dispose of it in a sanitary manner whenever
such dog has defecated upon public or private property without the
consent of the public or private owner or person in lawful possession
or charge of the property.
(b)
The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to a blind person being accompanied by a guide dog, nor shall they be construed to require or countenance any act of trespass upon private property. Whenever the feces to be cleaned up cannot be reached without a significant trespass upon the private property on which the feces is located, the person having the duty pursuant to subsection (a) to clean it upon shall first obtain consent to do so from the owner or person in lawful possession or charge of the property.
(Ord. 1082 § 1, 1979)
No person shall, without the knowledge or consent of the owner,
hold or retain possession of any dog of which he is not the owner,
for more than twenty-four hours without first reporting the possession
of such dog to the animal control officer, giving his name and address
and a true description of the dog and then causing the dog to be impounded
at the city animal pound for return to the legal owner. At the discretion
of the animal control officer, any such finder of a dog may be allowed
to retain possession of the dog in lieu of impoundment. In such case
the animal control officer shall make all normal and regular efforts
to ascertain the true owner of the dog and advise him of the whereabouts
of the dog.
(Prior code § 5532; Ord. 910 § 2, 1971)
No person shall remove any impounded animal from the city animal
pound without the consent of the animal control officer.
(Prior code § 5533; Ord. 910 § 2, 1971)
No person shall bring any dog, except a seeing-eye dog, onto
any public school property. This section shall not, however, be deemed
to prohibit the use of dogs on school property for teaching or other
school uses when approved by the proper school authorities.
(Prior code § 5534; Ord. 910 § 2, 1971)
No persons shall wilfully or maliciously torture, torment, beat,
kick, strike, mutilate, injure, disable or kill any dog used by the
police department, or any other law enforcement officer, in the performance
of the functions or duties of such department, or interfere with or
meddle with any such dog while being used by said department or any
member thereof in the performance of any of the functions or duties
of said department or of such officer or member.
(Prior code § 5575; Ord. 910 § 2, 1971)
