(a) No person shall harbor, maintain or control a wild, dangerous domesticated or undomesticated animal within the City.
(b) A "wild, dangerous, domesticated or undomesticated animal" is an animal whose natural habitat is the wilderness and which, when maintained in human society is usually confined to a zoological park or exotic animal farm and which:
(1) Is a venomous snake or is a snake that is a constrictor of a sufficient size to be capable of harming infants or household pets; or
(2) Is an omnivorous or carnivorous animal that weighs more than twenty-five pounds (25 lbs.) of which is a predator in its natural habitat; or
(3) Is an animal which, by reason of its size, strength, or appetite, would, if unrestrained and free in the City, cause peril to persons, household pets, buildings, landscape or shrubbery; or
(4) Is an animal that makes noises with sufficient frequency and volume as to constitute a nuisance to persons in the immediate vicinity of the animal; or
(5) Is an animal that emits offensive odors as to constitute a nuisance to persons in the vicinity of the animal; or
(6) Is, by illustration and without limitation to the following, a lion, tiger, mountain lion, jaguar, cheetah, leopard, panther, bear, wolverine, elk, moose, caribou, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, wild ox or boar and trained fighting animals.
(Ord. 5501-84. Passed 11-19-84)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.