(A) No person shall cruelly or unnecessarily beat, abuse, overwork or insufficiently shelter, feed or water any animal within the municipality. If there has been a previous conviction pursuant to this section, the person so convicted shall be prohibited from owning, possessing, keeping, harboring or having control of, charge of or custody of any animal from and after the date of that conviction. If said person violates said prohibition, law enforcement shall be permitted to enter upon the real estate of the person so violating and deliver the animal or animals in question to the municipal animal shelter. All costs for boarding the animal or animals and for the placement or destruction of the animal or animals shall be borne by and shall be the responsibility of the person in violation of this section.
(1976 Code, § 6-119)
(B) No person shall kill or injure any animal by the use of firearms, stones, clubs, poisons or any other manner unless the animal is vicious or dangerous and cannot be captured without danger to the persons attempting to effect a capture of the said animal.
(1976 Code, § 6-120)
(Ord. 1389, passed 6-19-2006; Ord. 1411, passed 11-23-2009) Penalty, see § 90.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 28-552, 28-553