(a) No person, being the owner, lessor or occupant of any lot or parcel of land within the City, shall keep, harbor or maintain, or knowingly permit to be kept, harbored or maintained any animal or fowl prohibited in the City by Section 505.02 upon any such lot or parcel of land, or neglect or refuse to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned by the keeping and maintaining of such animal or fowl upon any such lot or parcel of land within twenty-four hours after such person has knowledge of the existence of such nuisance or within twenty-four hours after service of notice thereof in writing from the Manager.
(b) Upon conviction under the provisions of subsection (a) hereof, the person convicted shall, within twenty-four hours after such conviction, remove or cause to be removed such animals and fowl from any such lot or parcel of land and his failure to do so shall constitute a second offense against the provisions of this section. The continued failure or refusal of such convicted person to remove such animals and fowl from such lot or parcel of land shall constitute a separate, distinct and additional offense for each successive twenty-four hour period of such failure and refusal.
(1976 Code Sec. 4-2)