(A) No owner shall fail to provide his animals with sufficient good and wholesome food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering and with humane care and treatment.
(B) No person shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(C) No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal.
(D) Chickens or ducklings younger than eight weeks of age may not be sold in quantities of less than 25 to a single purchaser.
(E) No person shall give away any live animal, fish, reptile or bird as a prize for, or as an inducement to enter any contest, game or other competition; or as an inducement to enter a place of amusement; or offer such vertebrate as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.
(F) No person shall set within the city any leg-hold traps other than the type generally recognized as rodent control devices, except as provided below. Nothing in this section shall prohibit federal, state or local authorities from trapping nuisance or dangerous animals as such authorities deem necessary under the circumstances.
(1) Animal trapping shall be limited to the hunting and trapping season(s) as prescribed by Nebraska State Statute(s) and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
(2) Trap sets shall be limited to snare and metal box traps.
(3) No traps shall be permitted on any land without written permission from the owner or all owners of property where the trap line is to be run.
(4) No trap set shall be permitted within 200 feet of any occupied building without written permission from the owner.
(5) No trap shall be set within 200 feet of any public park, designated forest or any feral cat community approved by the city council.
(6) Each trap shall be properly tagged according to Nebraska State Statute and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
(7) Traps shall be set in full compliance with any and all licensing and permit requirements of Nebraska State Statute(s) and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
(8) If any domestic pet or animal is taken in a trap set, the incident shall be immediately reported to the Bellevue Police Department.
(G) No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be liable to be eaten by any animal, provided that it shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on his own property common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substances.
(1964 Code, § 4-3) (Ord. 2162, § 7, passed 3-23-1981; Ord. 3822, § 1, passed 11-9-2015; Ord. 4082, § 1, passed 3-1-2022)
Statutory reference:
Cruelty to animals, see Neb. RS 1943, §§ 28-1004 et seq.