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(A) The keeping of vicious animals and/or large wild animals is prohibited. No person shall keep any vicious animal and/or large wild animal, whether owned by him or her or not, on his or her property within the city.
(B) The foregoing section is a necessary control on the unrestrained activities of vicious animals and/or large wild animals which threaten the safety and pleasantness of streets, parks, sidewalks, yards and all areas of the city and lack of knowledge or lack of intent is not a defense to a violation thereof.
(C) The keeping of livestock is prohibited. No person shall keep any livestock, whether owned by him or her, or not on his or her property within the city, except grand-fathered farms, those animals approved by the Board of Adjustment or those zoned RU (Rural District).
(Prior Code, § 90.07) (Ord. passed 9-11-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) No person shall allow any animal owned by the person or under his or her custody, control or possession to be upon public property or upon the property of another, absent the consent of the owner or occupant of the property, without some device for the removal and containment of the animal’s excrement; nor shall any person fail to remove any excrement deposited by any animal owned by that person or under his or her control on public property or private property of another, absent the consent of the owner or occupant of the property.
(B) This section shall not apply to guide dogs under the control of a blind person or the city’s police K-9 unit.
(Prior Code, § 90.08) (Ord. passed 9-11-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
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