(A) No Person shall promote, stage, hold, manage, conduct, carry on, train for or attend a game, exhibition, contest or fight in which one or more Animals is injuring, killing, maiming or destroying itself or other Animals. Without limitation on the foregoing, Cockfighting is specifically included under this section.
(B) No Person shall provoke or entice an Animal from the property of its Owner for the purpose of engaging the Animal in an Animal fight.
(C) No Person shall commit the offense of Cockfighting. When any Person is charged with Cockfighting, the Mayor’s designee shall take the Fighting Birds at the location into Protective Custody. A Person commits the offense of Cockfighting if the person knowingly:
(1) owns, possesses, keeps, rears, breeds, trains, buys, sells, transports, or advertises or otherwise offers to sell a Fighting Bird;
(2) promotes or participates in, or performs services in furtherance of, the conducting of a Cockfight. Services in furtherance of a Cockfight include, but are not limited to, transporting spectators to a Cockfight, handling Fighting Birds, organizing, advertising or refereeing a Cockfight and providing, or acting as a stakeholder for, money wagered on a Cockfight;
(3) keeps, uses or manages, or accepts payment of admission to, a place for the conducting of a Cockfight;
(4) suffers or permits a place in the possession or control of the Person to be occupied, kept or used for the conducting of a Cockfight;
(5) manufactures, buys, sells, barters, exchanges, possesses, advertises or otherwise offers to sell a Gaff, Slasher or other sharp implement designed for attachment to a Fighting Bird or any other bird; or
(6) attends a Cockfight or pays admission at any location to view or bet on a Cockfight.
(Ord. 18-2006; Am. Ord. 2023-016)