(A) No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog or cat shall cause, suffer or allow the animal to soil, defile, defecate or to commit any nuisance on any public thoroughfare, sidewalk, or upon any public property whatsoever, or upon any private property without permission of the owner of the property unless the person has in his or her immediate possession an appropriate device for scooping excrement and an appropriate depository for the transmission of excrement to a receptacle located on property owned or possessed by the person. This section shall not apply to a person who is visually or physically handicapped.
(B) It shall be unlawful to maintain dogs, cats or other permissible domestic animals in any place in the Village of Birch Run which is not clean and sanitary and free from refuse, obnoxious odors, animal offal or spoiled food.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons as owner, keeper or under whose control the same may be, to allow any dog or dogs to run-at-large upon the property of any person, other than the property of the owner of the dog or dogs, within the limits of the village, without the written consent of the owner, keeper or person having control or supervision of the premises. All animals shall be on a leash of no more than six feet in length when the animals are being exercised.
(1992 Code, § 60.009) (Ord. 2-95, passed - - 1995) Penalty, see § 90.99