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No person having charge or custody of an animal, as owner or otherwise, shall place or confine it, or allow it to be placed or confined or to remain, in a motor vehicle or in such a location under such conditions or for such a period of time as may endanger its health or well-being due to heat or cold, lack of food, drink, adequate ventilation or such other circumstances as may reasonably be expected to cause suffering, disability or death.
An Enforcement Officer who finds an animal in a motor vehicle in violation of this article may force entry into the motor vehicle if necessary to remove the animal. The Enforcement Officer removing the animal shall take the animal to the Animal Control Division or other place of safekeeping and shall, in the event the person having custody cannot be otherwise contacted, leave in a prominent place in the motor vehicle a written notice bearing the Enforcement Officer’s name, the office and address where the animal may be claimed by the owner thereof. The animal will be surrendered to the owner if the owner claims it within 3 business days from the time the animal was removed from the motor vehicle, and shall pay all reasonable charges that have accrued for its maintenance. The owner must also at the time of return of the animal make current all licensing and vaccinations and pay all associated fines incurred for the city’s care of the animal.
(A) No person, firm or corporation shall be permitted to keep or harbor any animal in such a manner that the housing conditions shall cause insect or rodent breeding, obnoxious or offensive odors or those that constitute a public nuisance.
(B) All corrals, barns, enclosures or other structures used for the purpose of housing, keeping or caring for any animal or animals shall be structurally sound so as to contain them safely and securely.
(A) Manure shall be removed from any yard, corral, barn, enclosure or any other structure used for the purpose of housing, keeping or caring for an animal or livestock as often as necessary to maintain a sanitary premise that will not cause a hazard to the health of an animal or livestock. However, manure may be composted or distributed evenly in a thin layer in turnouts or round pens for purposes of dust control.
(B) Drinking troughs shall contain clean and fresh water and shall be provided with adequateoverflow drainage, and such drainage shall be controlled so as to prohibit any flow onto adjoining properties or the breeding of mosquitoes or other noxious insects. Livestock must have access to drinking water at all times.
(C) Manure shall not be accumulated in any place or in any manner whereby it may affect a source of drinking water or groundwater.
(D) Spillage and leftovers from animal feedings shall be disposed of in such a manner that insect or rodent breeding or obnoxious odors do not exist.
(E) Manure shall be located on the property on which the animals or livestock generating the manure are kept or harbored so as to prevent the manure from entering onto an adjoining property. Reasonable containment procedures shall take into consideration acts of nature, such as rainfall and wind, as well as natural drainage courses and sloping terrain.
(Ord, 1465, passed 12-4-2018)
All animals shall be kept or harbored with adequate food, water and care in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. It shall be the duty of the Enforcement Officer to impound any animals maintained in conditions in violation of this code, in accordance with the provisions contained in A.J.C.C., Vol. I, Article 6-2.
(Ord, 1465, passed 12-4-2018)
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