(A) No person or those owning or having possession, charge, custody or control of any animal shall cause or fail to provide the animal with sufficient good and wholesome food, clean water, proper shelter, care and veterinary treatment when needed.
(B) An animal services officer shall cause a citation to be issued if there is probable cause to believe that a violation of any of the following provisions of this section has been violated:
(1) Abandon an animal, or cause an animal to be abandoned, including abandoning any dog, cat or any other domesticated animal in any public place including the rights-of-way of any public highway, road, street or on the property of another;
(2) Knowingly expose an animal to any poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be in a manner to be eaten by an animal, fish, bird, fowl or reptile, provided that it shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on his or her property common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substances;
(3) Beat excessively or cruelly, ill treat, torment, torture, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate or permit any fight or other combat between animals or animals and humans;
(4) Who as the operator of a vehicle strikes an animal, fails to stop and render assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report the injury or death to the appropriate authorities; (In the event the owner cannot be ascertained or found, the operator shall at once report the accident to the animal services office or police.)
(5) Give away any live animal, fish, bird, fowl or reptile as a prize for or as an inducement to enter any contest, game or other competition, or as an inducement to enter a place of amusement or offer the species as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade;
(6) In no event shall any person, except a licensed veterinarian crop, notch or split an animal's ears or tail;
(7) Failure to provide medical treatment or denial of medical treatment for any diseased, sick or injured animal;
(8) Failure or denial of necessary sustenance, such as food of adequate amounts to sustain flesh or permit normal growth, inadequate amount of clean water or water that is sour, filthy or spoiled;
(9) Failure to remove excrement and maintaining shelter of confinement area in a clean, odor free condition and free of ticks, fleas, flies or mosquitoes;
(10) Tease, bait or in any manner molest any animal not belonging to him or her or legally under his or her control;
(11) Failure or denial to provide shelter for any animal, fish, bird, fowl or reptile of any kind in any manner without shading same from the sun, any direct light, heat or cold and providing adequate ventilation for their use; and
(12) Any person or owner who, through negligence, lets his or her animals run free, break loose or escape in any manner and who has been previously warned by animal services of the same shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
(`95 Code, § 6-3-18) (Ord. 89-2, passed 11-17-89; Am. Ord. 07-99, passed 2-16-99; Am. Ord. 03-02, passed 3-26-2002) Penalty, see § 10.99