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55.09   UNHEALTHFUL OR UNSANITARY CONDITIONS.
   1.   An owner shall keep all structures, pens, coops, or yards wherein animals are confined clean, devoid of vermin, and free of odors arising from feces.
   2.   No owner or walker of any animal shall permit the animal to discharge feces upon any public or private property, other than the property of the owner of the animal.  The owner or walker shall be deemed to permit the animal’s discharge of the feces if the owner does not immediately thereafter take steps to remove and clean up the feces from the property.
   3.   All feces removed as aforesaid shall be placed in an airtight container until it is removed pursuant to refuse collection procedures, or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner.
   4.   An owner may, as an alternative to subsection 3 above, collect the feces and turn it under the surface of the owner’s soil in any manner that prevents odor or collection of vermin.