No owner shall fail to provide an animal in his care with sufficient good and wholesome food or clean water, adequate shelter as defined in section 14-2, protection from weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, and with humane care and treatment.
(Ordinance 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)
No person shall unreasonably abandon, deprive of necessary food, care, or proper shelter, beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, mentally abuse, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate, or permit any dog fight, cock fight, butt fight, or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(Ordinance 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)
No person shall give away any live animal as a prize or as an inducement to enter any contest, game or other competition or an inducement to enter a place of business; offer such animal as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.
(Ordinance 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)
Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal 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 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)
No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be liable to be eaten by any domestic animal or person. This section is not intended to prohibit use of herbicides, insecticides, or rodent control materials.
(Ordinance 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)
No person shall expose an open trap or metal jaw type that shall be liable to injure any domestic animal or person; however, this shall not preclude the proper use of humane box traps.
(Ordinance 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)
All theatrical exhibits as defined herein shall, in addition to other requirements of this chapter, comply with the minimum standards of this section. Facilities shall be subject to inspection by a humane officer upon his request during reasonable hours.
(1) 
Animal quarters shall be of sufficient size to allow each animal to stand up, lie down, and turn around in a natural position without touching the sides or top, or any other animal or waste.
(2) 
Each enclosure shall be maintained in comfortable and healthy temperature levels as well as adequate ventilation.
(3) 
Exhibit areas shall not be on a surface as to cause animals undo stress and pain to animals such as but not limited to hot asphalt, muddy conditions, etc.
(4) 
No enclosure, performance or exhibit area shall be located in such a manner as to allow the public to come in contact with the animal.
(5) 
No animal shall be made to perform by means of any prod, stick, electrical shock, chemical or physical force, or by causing pain or discomfort. Any whip or riding crop must be used so as to not cause injury to the animal.
(6) 
No animal shall be caused to fight, wrestle or be physically matched against any other animal or person.
(7) 
No animal shall perform or be displayed in any dangerous situation presenting the danger of physical injury to the animal or person.
(8) 
The humane division must be notified of all displays or performances, including date, time and exact location at least 48 hours in advance of a display or performance.
(9) 
No dog or cat may be killed for the purposes of human consumption or for its fur within the city limits. No domestic animal may be killed for human consumption in such a manner as to disturb the sensibilities of neighboring residences.
(10) 
No prohibited, restricted or wild animal will be permitted to be exhibited without proper documentation from appropriate state and federal agencies.
(Ordinance 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)
Any animal observed by a police officer or humane officer or as otherwise designated by the city manager to be in immediate danger may be removed from such situation by the quickest and most reasonable means available.
(Ordinance 3235, § 1, adopted 4/22/2013)