(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 suffcient 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.) which is a predator in its natural habitat; or
(3) Is an animal which, by reason of its size, strength or appetite, would, if restrained 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, lynx, mountain lion, jaguar, cheetah, leopard, panther, bear, wolverine, elk, moose, caribou, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, wolf, wild ox, boar crocodile, alligator, caiman or gavial and trained fighting animals. (SEE FORMER BHCO 505.20(c) for training fighting dogs)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 2007-116. Passed 5-21-07.)