(A) The provisions of this section shall not apply to guide dogs accompanying a blind person or to a person with dogs engaged in search or rescue activities on behalf of the public.
(B) It is unlawful for the owner or custodian of any animal to:
(1) Fail to have the license tag issued by the city firmly attached to a collar worn at all times by the licensed animal;
(2) Own a dangerous animal;
(3) Interfere with any police officer, or other city employee, in the performance of his or her duty to enforce this section;
(4) Fail to keep his or her dog from barking, howling or whining;
(5) Fail to keep his or her cat from emitting loud or unusual noise;
(6) Allow the animal to frequent school grounds, parks or public places;
(7) Allow the animal to chase vehicles;
(8) Allow the animal to molest or annoy any person away from the property of his or her owner or custodian;
(9) Allow the animal to damage any lawn, garden or other property, private or public, or to urinate or defecate on private property without the consent of the owner or possessor of the property;
(10) Fail to immediately remove any feces left by the animal on any sidewalk, gutter, street, park land or other public or private property and to dispose of the feces in a sanitary manner in a proper receptacle located on property owned or possessed by the owner or custodian;
(11) It shall be illegal for any person to own, possess, harbor or offer for sale any non-domestic animal within the city limits. Any owner of such an animal at the time of adoption of this provision shall have 30 days in which to remove the animal from the city, after which time the city may impound the animal as provided for in this chapter. An exception shall be made to this prohibition for animals specifically trained for and actually providing assistance to the disabled, and for those animals brought into the city as part of an operating zoo, veterinarian clinic, scientific research laboratory, a licensed show or exhibition or a wildlife rehabilitation facility permitted by state and/or federal authority, provided there is no objection thereto by registered property owners located within 100 feet of the wildlife rehabilitation facility; and
(12) Farm animals shall only be kept in an agricultural district of the city. An exception shall be made to this division (B)(12) for those animals brought into the city as part of an operating zoo, veterinarian clinic, scientific research laboratory, a licensed show or exhibit or by permit issued by the City Council for an undeveloped area or areas within the city other than a residential zone. Harboring, possessing or releasing farm animals within the city limits in districts other than the agricultural districts of the city, or as otherwise herein provided, shall be an unlawful act.
(2003 Code, § 8.05-12) (Ord. 83, passed 4-9-1999; Ord. 136, passed 11-23-2006) Penalty, see § 10.99