(a) No person shall keep or harbor any swine, chickens, goats or cattle within the City for a period of more than forty-eight hours.
(b) No person having care, custody or control, shall permit any dangerous animal to run at large, or lead any dangerous animal with a chain, rope or other appliance, whether the animal is muzzled or unmuzzled, in any street or public place.
(c) No person shall keep, harbor, or possess, anywhere within the municipality, any living, inherently wild animal.
(d) For the purposes of this section, an inherently wild animal is any animal, which is normally wild by nature and that, because of its size, vicious nature or other characteristic is dangerous to human beings. Such animals include, but are not limited to: poisonous reptiles, monitor lizards, constricting snakes with a length greater than two feet, crocodilians, poisonous spiders, scorpions, nonhuman primates, lions, tigers, jaguars, cheetahs, bobcats, cougars, leopards, panthers, bears, and other like animals.
(1) Circuses, zoos and educational institutions for exhibition or educational purposes.
(2) Veterinary hospital or clinic.
(3) Transportation of such wildlife through the municipality.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 2008-30. Passed 7-1-08.)