It shall be unlawful for any person to keep upon his premises any hog
or pig within two hundred (200) yards of a neighboring occupied dwelling or
building.
It shall be unlawful for an owner or custodian of any dog to allow the
dog to run at large. A dog shall be deemed to be running at large while roaming,
running or self-hunting off the property of its owner or custodian and not
under its owner's or custodian's immediate control.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep within the town any dog,
male or female, over four (4) months of age, without first having the dog
inoculated against rabies, in accordance with the standards and requirements
of the State Health Department, and to thereafter keep the dog without having
the animal reinoculated at the intervals established by the Health Department.
No person shall pen up or confine cows, horses, mules or other animals
in any place within the town that will cause it to be a nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person to allow any hog, pig, goat, ox,
cow, calf, horse, mule, colt or other animal likely to be a nuisance to run
at large in the town.
No person shall have or keep any animal or fowl which, by making or
causing frequent or long continued and unreasonable noise, shall disturb the
comfort and repose of any person in the vicinity. Upon complaint being made
to the town police that the provisions of this section are being violated,
such officer may, after investigation, give notice of such complaint to the
owner or person in charge of such animal or fowl and order the discontinuance
of the disturbance. It shall be unlawful to fail to comply with such order.
If any animal or fowl dies in the town, the owner or person in charge
of such animal or fowl shall at once dispose of the same in a manner satisfactory
to the health officer. It shall be unlawful for the owner or person in charge
of a dead animal or fowl to fail to dispose of the same within five (5) hours
after notice to do so. When the owner or person in charge of a dead animal
or fowl is unknown, the dead animal or fowl shall be disposed of at the expense
of the town by the town.
No person shall override, overdrive, overload, torture, ill treat or
cruelly or unnecessarily beat, maim, mutilate or kill any animal, whether
belonging to himself or another, or deprive any animal of necessary sustenance,
food or drink or cause any of the above things or, being the owner of such
animal, permit such acts to be done by another or willfully set on foot, instigate,
engage or in any way further any act of cruelty to any animal or carry or
cause to be carried in or upon any vehicle or vessel or otherwise any animal
in a cruel, brutal or inhuman manner so as to produce torture or unnecessary
suffering; but nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the
dehorning of cattle. The word "animal," as used in this section, shall be
construed to include birds and fowl.