A. 
No owner shall fail to provide his or her animals with adequate feed and water, proper, clean, and sanitary shelter, protection from the weather and veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering. The humane care and treatment of all animals shall be maintained at all times.
B. 
Every person who keeps an animal confined in an enclosed area shall provide it with an adequate exercise area. If the animal is restricted by a leash, rope or chain, the leash, rope or chain shall be affixed in such a manner that it will prevent the animal from becoming entangled or injured and permit the animal's access to adequate shelter, food and water. Violation of this provision constitutes a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 91.007)
No person shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, tease, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse an animal, nor cause, instigate or permit any dogfight, cockfight or combat between animals or animals and humans, excluding police canines, within the city, nor shall any parent allow or permit his or her minor child to so treat any animal. Violation of this provision constitutes a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 91.008)
A. 
No person shall kill or butcher any animal within city limits.
B. 
For the purpose of this section, "butcher" means bleeding, eviscerating, skinning, splitting, cutting or carving the body or any portion of the body of an animal, except for fish or fowl killed outside of the corporate limits of the city.
(Prior code § 91.010)
No person shall place, leave or expose, in any place accessible to any animals, with the intent to kill or harm such animals, any poisonous substance or ingredient, or any edible or any other substance or ingredient which has in any manner been treated or prepared with any poisonous substance or ingredient. Violation of this provision constitutes a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 91.011)
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to own any snake within city limits, unless specifically allowed by the State Department of Fish and Game. Any such permit required by the Department of Fish and Game for the keeping of any snake must be obtained by the owner and shown to the animal control officer upon demand.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to own and keep within the city any snake that is over four feet in length.
(Prior code § 91.013)
No person shall tie, hitch, or stake a horse, cow, sheep, hog, or any other animal upon, in, or along any public highway in this city so that the animal can go upon or across the used or traveled part of the highway or any portion of the used or traveled part of the highway.
(Prior code § 91.014)
No person shall keep or maintain any live animal in a cage, coop, hutch, pen, yard or space which is less than three times as large in floor space and twice the height as the total size of all live animals which may be kept therein, and which is not of sufficient height to permit each animal to stand in a natural erect position. This shall not preclude a veterinarian, any person(s) engaged in showing animals, or animal groomer from temporarily confining an animal in a smaller container for medical, showing or grooming purposes. Violation of this provision constitutes a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 91.015)
A. 
Every person keeping any animal shall at all times keep cages, coops, pasture or other enclosures wherein such animal is kept in a clean and sanitary condition, and shall remove excreta and manure therefrom every day, or as often as is necessary so as not to become a nuisance to any person in the neighborhood.
B. 
No person shall at any time maintain any lot or other premises, or any portion thereof, in the city, upon which any animal is kept in an unsanitary condition. No person shall maintain any such lot or other premises, or portion thereof; upon which any animal is kept, in such condition as to cause the same to be infested with flies or insects or to create any noxious or offensive odors.
(Prior code § 91.016)
A. 
Public Nuisance Prohibited. It is unlawful for any person to keep, have upon premises owned, occupied or controlled by him or her within the city, any animal found to be a public nuisance as defined by this title.
B. 
Public Nuisance Abatement.
1. 
Whenever the animal control department or any of its animal control officers has reasonable cause to believe that a public nuisance, as defined in this section, exists, the animal control officer may conduct an investigation of such alleged nuisance.
2. 
If, upon such investigation, the animal control officer determines that a nuisance does not exist, no further action shall be taken; provided, however, that when a complaining party wishes to pursue the matter, he or she may file a written citizen's arrest request, in such form as may be created by the animal control department, with the animal control department.
3. 
If, upon such investigation, the animal control officer determines that a nuisance exists, he or she shall issue an order to the owner of the offending animal directing that such nuisance be abated. In the event that the owner does not comply with the order, the animal control officer may immediately issue a citation to the owner of the offending animal to appear in court.
C. 
Violation. Every person who maintains, permits or allows a public nuisance to exist upon his or her property or premises, and every person occupying or leasing the property or premises of another who maintains, permits or allows a public nuisance to exist thereon, after reasonable notice in writing from an animal control officer, district attorney, city attorney or prosecuting attorney to remove, discontinue or abate the same has been served upon such person, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished accordingly; and the existence of such nuisance of each and every day after the service of such notice shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense, and it is made the duty of the animal control officer, or the city attorney to prosecute all persons guilty of violating this section by continuous prosecutions until the nuisance is abated.
(Prior code § 91.017)
Neither the animal control officer nor anyone in his or her employ shall knowingly sell or give any impounded animal to any person, firm, corporation, association or school for the purpose of animal experimentation. Violation of this provision constitutes a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 91.018)
No person under the age of 18 shall place any dog, cat, puppy or kitten on public display for the purpose of sale, offer for sale, barter or give-away upon any street, sidewalk, parking lot, shopping center walkway or other public place, and no transfer of any such animal shall be made to any person under the age of 18.
(Prior code § 91.019)
No person shall give away any live animal, fish, reptile or bird as a prize for or as an inducement to enter any contest, game or competition, or as an inducement to enter a place of amusement, or offer such vertebrate as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.
(Prior code § 91.020)
Any person discovering a stray or apparently lost animal shall report the same to the animal control department. Any person who apprehends or picks up a stray or lost animal shall report the same to animal control department within eight hours thereafter and shall release such animal to the animal control officer upon demand. Failure and neglect to do so is unlawful.
(Prior code § 91.021)
A. 
Notwithstanding any provisions of this title, an impounded animal, which is determined by a veterinarian to constitute a health or safety hazard, shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of without delay by the animal control officer or the veterinarian.
B. 
An impounded animal which is determined by a licensed veterinarian to be suffering extreme pain due to disease or injury, and where there is no reasonable probability that the animal will recover from its disease or injury, may be destroyed without delay by the animal control officer or the veterinarian.
C. 
The animal control officer or any police or sheriff's department may, with the approval of his or her immediate superior, humanely destroy within the corporate limits without transporting to shelter or veterinarian any animal too severely injured to move or where a veterinarian is not available or it would be more humane to dispose of the animal.
(Prior code § 91.022)
Should any dog, cat and/or other animal defecate on any public property or on the private property of any person, the person owning or having custody of the animal shall immediately remove the feces from any such place to a site not prohibited by law. Failure and neglect to do so is unlawful.
(Prior code § 91.023)