Section
90.01 Animal control officer; duties; bond; authorization; impounding and fees
90.02 Failure to confine animals
90.03 Barking, howling, or offensive dogs
90.04 Defecation on public or private property
90.05 Dog owner liable for damage to public property
90.06 Abandoning animals
90.07 Cruelty to animals; cruelty to companion animals
90.08 Killing or injuring animals
90.09 Poisoning animals
90.10 Animal bites; quarantine and reporting
90.11 Dead animals
90.12 Hunting prohibited
90.13 Failure to pay pickup fee
90.14 Wild or dangerous animals prohibited
90.15 Prohibited animals specified
90.16 Exception for medical and educational institutions
90.17 Rabies immunization required
90.18 Outdoor feeding prohibited
90.99 Penalty
Cross-reference:
For classification of civil offenses and related proceedings, see Chapter 38
(A) The Safety Director may, if and as provided by Council and the Municipal Administrator, appoint a city animal control officer from time to time, for such period of time, and at such compensation as may be authorized by Chapter 33 of this code to supplement within the city limits the duties of the county dog warden in enforcing the provisions of R.C. Chapter 955, R.C. Chapter 959 and the provisions of this chapter. Such animal control officer shall give bond as prescribed by § 30.21.
(B) The animal control officer shall likewise have power to summon the assistance of bystanders in performing his or her duties and may serve writs and other legal processes issued by any court within the limits of the city with reference to enforcing R.C. Chapter 955, R.C. Chapter 959 and this chapter.
(C) The animal control officer or any police officer may pick up and impound any animal found to be in violation of any provision of law. Animals impounded under this section shall be impounded for a period of not less than three days. During such time the owner, harborer, or keeper thereof may secure the release of such animal upon proof that he or she has duly registered the animal, if registration is required of the animal. If the animal is a dog, the person shall provide proof that a dog license for the current year has been issued as provided in R.C. Chapter 955, and upon payment to such agent of the city as the Safety Director may from time to time direct, of a pickup fee of $15, and then the person may secure release of the dog or animal.
(D) The foregoing pickup fees shall be charged and collected in addition to any pickup, impoundment, or licensing fees imposed by the county or appropriate agency. If the animal is not so redeemed, the city animal control officer shall deliver the animal to the county dog warden, or make such other disposition as the city animal control officer deems appropriate.
(1980 Code, § 90.01) (Ord. 3071, passed 1-3-1974; Am. Ord. 3101, passed 4-1-1974; Am. Ord. 3973, passed 5-5-1980; Am. Ord. 4115, passed 5-18-1981; Am. Ord. 5174, passed 7-16-1990; Am. Ord. 7573, passed 8-7-2006)
(A) The owner or person having charge of birds, cats, cattle, dogs, ferrets, gerbils, guinea pigs, hamsters, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, geese, ducks, turkeys, chickens, or other fowl or domestic animals shall at all times keep those animals confined upon the premises of the owner or person having charge or under absolute physical control by the owner or person having charge, when off the premises. In the event the animal is being walked upon a leash, it must not exceed ten feet in length.
(B) The running at large of any such animal off the premises of the owner or person having charge is prima facie evidence of failure to keep an animal confined in violation of this section.
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to confine animals, a minor misdemeanor. However, if the animal running at large is a dog or cat and the dog or cat has either a current tag issued by the county auditor’s office, any auditor’s office in the state, or an identification tag affixed to the animal giving the name, address, and telephone number of the animal’s owner, then the maximum fine shall be $50. If the offender has previously been convicted of a violation of this section or similar or related offenses, then violation of this section is aggravated failure to keep an animal confined, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(1980 Code, § 90.02) (Ord. 3071, passed 1-3-1974; Am. Ord. 3600, passed 5-16-1977; Am. Ord. 3953, passed 2-19-1980; Am. Ord. 4426, passed 4-16-1984; Am. Ord. 9258, passed 2-18-2025) Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) No person shall own, harbor, or keep any dog within the municipality which, by frequent and habitual barking, howling, or yelping, creates unreasonably loud and disturbing noises of such a character, intensity, and duration as to disturb the peace, quiet, and good order of the municipality.
(B) No person shall own, harbor, or keep any dog which, by biting, scratching, digging, jumping, running, frolicking, urinating, defecating, vomiting, or otherwise, injures, damages, soils, defaces, or befouls any person, lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building, street, sidewalk, or other public or private property without the permission of the owner or person in charge of such property. The restriction as to defecating imposed by this section shall not be applicable to public property when the owner, harborer, or keeper of such dog immediately and completely removes all feces deposited by such dog and disposes of same in a sanitary manner, nor to cases in which seeing eye dogs are leading legally blind persons.
(C) Any person who shall allow any dog habitually to remain, be lodged, or fed within any dwelling, building, yard, or enclosure which he or she occupies or owns, shall be considered as harboring or keeping such dog for the purposes of this section.
(D) Whoever violates this section is guilty of harboring barking, howling, or offensive dogs, a minor misdemeanor. If the offender has previously been convicted of this section, then violation of this section is aggravated harboring of barking, howling, or offensive dogs, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(1980 Code, § 90.03) (Ord. 3071, passed 1-3-1974; Am. Ord. 3101, passed 4-1-1974; Am. Ord. 3953, passed 2-19-1980) Penalty, see § 90.99
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