(a) No person owning, keeping or harboring any animal, livestock or poultry shall abandon such animal, livestock or poultry.
(b) No person shall maliciously, or willfully, and without the consent of the owner, kill or injure a farm animal, dog, cat or other domestic animal that is the property of another. This section does not apply to a licensed veterinarian acting in an official capacity.
(c) The hunting of animals, livestock or poultry within the Municipality is prohibited.
(d) The use of leghold type traps for the trapping of animals within the City is prohibited.
(e) No person shall maliciously, or willfully and without the consent of the owner, administer poison, except a licensed veterinarian acting in such capacity, to a farm animal, dog, cat, poultry or other domestic animal that is the property of another; and where it may be easily found and eaten by any of such animals, either upon his own lands or the lands of another.
(f) No person shall:
(1) Torture an animal, deprive one of necessary sustenance, unnecessarily or cruelly beat, needlessly mutilate or kill, or impound or confine an animal without supplying it during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food and water;
(2) Impound or confine an animal without affording it, during such confinement, access to shelter from wind, rain, snow or excessive direct sunlight if it can reasonably be expected that the animal would otherwise become sick or in some other way suffer. This subsection (f)(2) does not apply to animals impounded or confined prior to slaughter. For the purpose of this section, "shelter" means a man-made enclosure, windbreak, sunshade or natural windbreak or sunshade that is developed from the earth's contour, tree development or vegetation;
(3) Carry or convey an animal in a cruel or inhuman manner;
(4) Keep animals other than cattle, poultry or fowl, swine, sheep or goats in an enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air, nor feed cows on food that produces impure or unwholesome milk;
(5) Detain livestock in railroad cars or compartments longer than twenty-eight hours after they are so placed without supplying them with necessary food, water and attention, nor permit such stock to be so crowded as to overlie, crush, wound or kill each other.
(6) No pets, animals, poultry or livestock shall be offered or given as a prize, premium or advertising device to any individual person unless sold by a person, firm, partnership or corporation engaged in the business of selling animals for agricultural or wildlife purposes.
(Ord. 90-158. Passed 9-17-90.)