(A) Prohibiting animals to trespass. The owner, possessor or manager of any animal shall not permit the same to trespass upon the premises of another property owner without prior permission or he or she shall be in violation of this subchapter and shall have the burden of providing permission to trespass was granted.
(B) At large animals prohibited.
(1) No animal shall run at large in the borough. Any person who is the owner or custodian of an animal found at large in the borough shall be in violation of this subchapter. It shall be unlawful for any owner of an animal to place such animal or allow it to be placed in the custody of any other person not physically capable of maintaining effective control of such animal.
(2) No animal shall be allowed on borough property except borough streets and sidewalks and at places designated by the Borough Council and provided that said animals shall not be at large.
(3) It shall be the duty of the Borough Official to seize and detain any animal, licensed or unlicensed, found running at large, either upon the public streets or highways of the borough or on the property of any other person and unaccompanied by its owner or keeper. The Borough Official is hereby authorized and empowered to go on any public premises or on private property and to enter any public building to seize and detain any animal which has been running at large unaccompanied by an owner or keeper when such borough official is in immediate pursuit of such animal.
(C) Cleanup of fecal matter.
(1) No owner of any animal or any person having the care, custody and control of any animal shall permit the same to discharge or deposit any fecal matter upon the property of another without immediately removing such matter and disposing of it in a sanitary manner. The term PROPERTY OF ANOTHER shall be interpreted to include the property of the borough or of any other political subdivision.
(2) No owner or possessor of real property shall permit animal fecal matter to accumulate on such property for more than 24 hours and it shall be the owner’s or possessor’s responsibility to daily remove such matter to prevent any such accumulation from becoming a danger to public health.
(D) Maintenance of animals as household pets. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any household pet in a dwelling owned or occupied by its owner unless such owner shall be required to follow such procedures and practices, as to the number of such pets to be kept there, and as to sanitation, to ensure that no public nuisance shall be created or maintained and no threat to the health of persons living in the dwelling or elsewhere shall be created.
(Prior Code, Ch. 2, § 302) (Ord. 317, passed 1-20-1997, § 2) Penalty, see § 90.99