(A) No person shall be cruel to any animal or bird.
(B) No person shall throw or deposit any poisonous substance on any exposed public or private place where it may endanger any animal, bird, or bee.
(C) Except by written permission of the Police Chief, no person, except a peace officer in his or her official capacity, shall molest, injure, kill, or capture any wild bird, or molest any wild bird’s nest, beehive, or the contents thereof.
(D) No person shall harbor or keep any swine.
(E) No person shall harbor or keep any animal, bird, or bee which causes annoyance in the neighborhood, either by:
(1) Barking, howling, braying, crowing, or other sound common to its species;
(2) Failure of the owner, caretaker, or custodian to maintain in a clean and sanitary condition, devoid of rodents and vermin, and free from objectionable odor, all structures, pens, coops, or yards wherein any animal, fowl, or bee is kept; or
(3) In the case of bees, stinging or molesting any person.
(F) No person shall permit any vicious dog of which he or she is the owner, caretaker, or custodian to be unconfined unless securely muzzled and led by leash. Any dog shall be deemed vicious which has bitten a person or domestic animal without molestation, or which, by its actions, gives indication that it is liable to bite any person or domestic animal without molestation.
(G) Whenever notice of a dog quarantine shall be published in the official newspaper by the Health Officer, no person shall, during the period of such quarantine, permit any dog, of which he or she is the owner, caretaker, or custodian, to be unconfined except under the conditions specified in such notice.
(H) No person shall deposit, place, or throw any dead or fatally sick or injured animal, or part thereof, on any public or private place, or into, or on the banks of, any stream, lake, pond, sewer, well, or other body of water.
(I) No person shall bury any dead or fatally sick or injured animal, or part thereof, in the village except that the owner or occupant of any unplatted property may bury thereon any dead animal owned by him or her dying on such premises, after having obtained a written permit to do so from the Health Officer. Such burial shall be made at a distance of not less than 200 yards from any residence and the carcass shall be placed underground and well covered with at least four feet of earth from the surface of the ground to the upper part of the carcass.
(J) No person shall carry or convey any dead animal through or upon any street, alley, or public place unless the same is so covered that no part of it is exposed to view and no odors can emanate therefrom.
(K) Any dead animal, or part thereof, lying upon any street, alley, or public place shall be removed by the Police Department forthwith. If any dead animal, or part thereof, is upon private property, the owner or person in charge of such animal at the time of its death shall dispose of the same, or shall immediately report the facts to the Police Department, which Department shall remove such animal forthwith. When any dead animal, or part thereof, is removed from private property by the Police Department, a fee shall be charged to the owner of the animal for such removal, which fee shall be determined by administrative regulation.
(Ord. 17, passed 2-14-1966) Penalty, see § 93.99