No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge
of any dog, cat or other domestic or wild animal shall cause, suffer
or allow such animal to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance
on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area,
park or any place where people congregate or walk, or upon any public
property whatsoever, or upon any private property without the permission
of the owner of said property, except under the following conditions:
A. The person who owns, harbors, keeps or is in charge
of such animal shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such
animal by any sanitary method approved by the local health authority.
B. The feces removed from the aforementioned designated
area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping
or in charge of any animal curbed in accordance with the provisions
of this article, in a sanitary manner approved by the local health
authority.
[Amended 6-7-2004 by Ord. No. 10-04]
Any person who violates any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction, be liable for a penalty of $50 for
the first offense, $75 for the second offense and $100 for each subsequent
offense.
Enforcement of this article shall be the duty
of the Borough Marshal.