(A) Regulation and taxation. The town shall regulate and prohibit animals running at large. The Board of Trustees of the town may provide for pens, pounds, and buildings for the use of the municipality. They may also regulate and provide for taxing the owners and harbors of such animals and may authorize the extermination of animals which are found at large in violation of these provisions.
(Prior Code, § 3-2)
(B) Animals not to be at large; exception.
(1) It shall be unlawful and an offense for any owner to permit any animals (including chickens and other fowl) owned, harbored, or kept by him or her, except a cat, to be at large.
(2) It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to:
(a) Keep, own, harbor, or possess any dog within the corporate limits of the town without providing a substantial and secure pen or fenced-in area in which said dog shall be confined (which pen or fenced-in area shall be sufficient in size that no sanitation or health problem shall be created);
(b) Keep or harbor any dog in the front yard of any property; or
(c) Place a dog on a leash which permits the dog to reach or bite any person who may be using the public thoroughfares of the town to reach beyond the limits of the lot or premises upon which said dog is kept and confined or to reach any person who may be rendering necessary services to the premises where said dog may be kept, harbored, or possessed.
(Prior Code, § 3-3)
(C) Turning confined animals at large unlawful. It shall be unlawful for any person to open any enclosure in which an animal is confined (as required by ordinance) so as to turn such animal at large or to, in any other manner, turn such animal at large.
(Prior Code, § 3-8)
(D) Certain dogs running loose to be killed. The animal control officer, his or her designated representatives, or any law enforcement officer of the town shall be required to kill any dog running loose within the corporate limits of the town which is determined by the animal control officer or law enforcement officer to be vicious or crazed and a threat to the public health and safety and which dog is found running at large without being restrained in a pen or on a leash without keeping said dog in the Municipal Pound for any period of time.
(Prior Code, § 3-12)
Penalty, see § 90.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 11 O.S. § 22-115