(A) It shall be unlawful for an owner or person having the custody or control of any dog or cat to allow the dog or cat to repeatedly run at large throughout the county so as to create a public nuisance, provided that this requirement shall not apply to working farm dogs used for tending purposes.
(B) All owners or persons having custody or control shall confine within a completely enclosed building or secure enclosure with no means of escape every vicious dog or any dog, cat or other animal when in heat or rutting as required by I.C. 15-5-8-2 et seq.
(C) Every vicious animal shall be confined by its owner or person having its custody or control within a completely enclosed building or secure enclosure with no means of escape and shall be securely muzzled or caged whenever off the premises of its owner.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or harbor within the county an animal that creates a nuisance, or which by loud and frequent or habitual barking, howling or yelping causes annoyance or disturbance to the neighborhood.
(E) All owners shall confine within a completely enclosed building or secure enclosure with no means of escape, or as otherwise directed by the Environmental Health Division of the County Health Department, any warm-blooded animal which has bitten, scratched or caused an abrasion of the skin of any human being or any warm-blooded animal that is known or suspected of being rabid, in accordance with the provision of § 92.06.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any owner or person having custody or control of any dog, cat or other animal to allow the dog, cat or other animal to enter upon the private property of another person without consent.
(G) It shall be unlawful for any owner or person having custody or control of any dog, cat or other animal to allow the dog, cat or other animal to scratch, bite or otherwise injure any person or other animal or to cause any damage or injury to the property of another person.
(H) Any animal kept for sentry or attack purposes at a place of public business, either wholesale, retail or service business, shall be registered with the County Animal Control Department. Registration of the sentry or attack animal shall be the responsibility of the owner of the animal. The name, address and telephone number of the owner of the animal shall be filed with the County Animal Control Department.
(Prior Code, § 3-8) (Ord. 12-13-79A, passed 12-13-1979; Ord. 1980-7, passed 11-20-1980; Ord. 1987-16, passed 10-26-1987; Ord. 2021-06, passed 8-30-2021) Penalty, see § 92.99
Editor’s note:
I.C. 15-5 was repealed by P.L. 2-2008, Sec. 83