(A) The owner, custodian and/or harborer and/or dog-walker or other person who accompanies a dog outside the boundaries or confines of the owner or harborer’s property shall at all times while off the owner or harborer’s property, be equipped with a suitable device or devices to remove and collect intestinal waste or feces that is discharged or deposited or may be discharged or deposited by the dog onto any property that is not owned by the custodian and/or harborer and/or walker. (A SUITABLE DEVICE as used in this section, may include a plastic bag or baggie or other device that may reasonably be used to pick up the aforementioned waste without discernibly contaminating one’s clothing or person during either the collection of such waste or after securing possession of such waste.)
(B) The owner, custodian and/or harborer and/or walker or other person who accompanies a dog outside the boundaries or confines of the owner or harborer’s property shall, then and there and immediately after the dog he or she is accompanying discharges or deposits feces outside the custodian and/or harborer and/or dog-walker’s property, remove the said discharge or deposit from the property where it is originally discharged or deposited and thereafter maintain possession of the discharge or deposit until such time as he or she can legally deposit the discharge or deposit in a trash receptacle with a closed lid.
(C) Any person who is accompanying a dog off his or her own property or off the owner, custodian and/or harborer and/or dog-walker or other person’s property, who has control of such dog, shall be guilty of a violation of this section if he or she advances more than ten yards away from the location of a discharge or deposit that is described in division (A) or (B) of this section without removing said discharge or deposit; or, fails to remove such discharge or deposit within a span of two minutes after the deposit is originally made.
(Ord. 2013-012, passed 8-12-13)