No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any
animal within the Village, except that this prohibition shall not
be applicable to the following ordinary household pets: dogs, cats,
fish excepting piranhas, parrots, parakeets, mynahs, canaries, gerbils,
hamsters and turtles. This section shall not apply to educational
institutes keeping animals for scientific or educational purposes.
No person shall cause or permit any animal to
run or be at large within the Village. The presence of an animal at
large shall be presumptive evidence that the person who keeps, harbors
or maintains it has caused or permitted such animal to run or be at
large in violation of this section.
Any person who keeps, harbors or maintains any
animal shall do so in a sanitary manner and shall prevent said animal
from making noise or otherwise disturbing the peace, comfort and quiet
of the Village.
No person who keeps, harbors or maintains any
animal shall cause or permit such animal to soil, defile, defecate
or commit any nuisance on any public property or private property
without the permission of the owner of said property. This restriction,
however, shall not apply to that portion of the street lying between
the curblines, which shall be used to curb such animal under the following
conditions:
A. The person who curbs such animal shall immediately
remove all feces deposited by such animal by any sanitary method approved
by the Nassau County Department of Health.
B. The feces removed from the aforementioned designated
area shall be disposed of, by the person keeping, harboring or maintaining
the animal curbed in accordance with the provisions of this section,
in a sanitary manner approved by the Nassau County Department of Health.
No person shall incite, induce or cause any
animal to fight another animal within the Village.