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No person shall cruelly, or needlessly beat, torture, torment, mutilate, kill or willfully deprive necessary sustenance, to any dog or cat, irrespective of whether any such dog or cat be his or her own or that of another person. No person shall impound or confine any such dog or cat in any place unprotected from the elements or fail to supply the same with a sufficient quantity of food and water, or abandon to die any maimed, sick or diseased dog or cat or be engaged in or employed at dogfighting, or putting one dog or cat to fight against another dog or cat or any similar cruelty to any dog or cat, or receive money for the admission of any person, or use, train or possess a dog or cat for the purpose of seizing, detaining or maltreating any other dog or cat. (WVaC 61-8-19a)
No person shall keep, harbor or maintain or knowingly permit to be kept, harbored or maintained within the City any domestic fowl or pigeon or any swine or other animal including, but not limited to, cattle, horses, mules, ponies or other animals which cannot be or ordinarily are not kept and maintained as house pets; provided, however, that the keeping, harboring or maintaining of homing or racing pigeons shall not be prohibited so long as the person keeping,
harboring or maintaining homing or racing pigeons complies with each of the following provisions:
(a) Such pigeons are not kept within thirty feet of any structure owned by another and used for human habitation, occupation or assemblage, whether such structure is in the same or in adjacent block or square;
(b) All such birds shall be registered and shall wear a seamless leg band;
(c) The structure in which such homing or racing pigeons are kept shall be dry, well ventilated and with windows so placed, if possible, to permit sunlight; it shall be cleaned at least once per week between December 1 and May 1 and at least twice a week between May 1 and December 1 of each year, and more often if necessary if so ordered by appropriate authority;
(d) The floor of the structure in which the homing or racing pigeons are kept shall be covered with sand or some other type of drying agent;
(e) Feeders shall be used for feeding the homing or racing pigeons and pigeon feed shall not be thrown on the floor of the structure in which the pigeons are kept;
(f) No more than ten pigeons shall be kept on any premises;
(g) Any building or structure erected for the housing of pigeons shall comply in all respects with the appropriate requirements of the Planning and Zoning Code;
(h) In no event shall pigeons be maintained in such a fashion that the structure in which the birds are maintained becomes offensive to view or in some other manner becomes a nuisance or in such a fashion that an odor is allowed to exist which is detectable on adjoining property.
(4-24-1984)
(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)
(a) Vicious or dangerous animals and reptiles of any species whatsoever are hereby declared to be a public nuisance and menace to the public safety, and no person shall own, keep or harbor any animal or reptile of any species whatsoever known by him, or which, in the exercise of reasonable diligence he should know, to be vicious, dangerous or in the habit of biting or attacking persons.
(b) In addition to any penalty which may be adjudged against any person for a violation of this section, such person shall be compelled to dispose of or to destroy such animal.
(1976 Code Sec. 4-3)
No person shall keep or harbor upon or about his premises any animal of any species whatsoever, which shall, by barking, howling, squalling, crying or in any other manner whatsoever, disturb the peace, comfort, quiet or tranquility of any neighborhood or adjoining property owner with the City, and upon conviction thereof such person shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 501.99, and shall be compelled to remove such animal from his premises or to see that such animal ceases making such noises.
(1976 Code Sec. 4-4)
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