(A) No owner, keeper, or custodian of any animal shall fail to provide animals in their care with sufficient food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering and with humane care and treatment.
(B) No person shall beat, cruelly ill treat, torment, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate or permit any dog fight, cockfight, bullfight or combat between animals, or between animals and humans and/or the owner may, if found guilty, be fined per § 3-120.
(C) No person or persons shall abandon or desert their dog or other animal or permit the animal to become a stray.
(D) Any person bringing an animal or animals to the shelter for the purpose of euthanasia or adoption shall pay a fee as set out in the fee schedule at the end of this code of ordinances. Any person bringing un-weaned, geriatric, diseased or injured animals to the shelter shall also sign a release authorizing the immediate humane euthanasia of the animal or animals.
(E) Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes any animal, shall stop at once and render assistance as may be possible or shall immediately report injury or death to the animal owner. If the owner cannot be ascertained and located, the operator shall at once report the accident to the Police Department.
(F) No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that same shall be liable to be eaten by an animal, except as provided by state law. It shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on his or her own property common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substances.
(G) Every pen, enclosure, yard, or house where a dog, cat, or any animal is permitted to be shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition free from objectionable odors. No person shall allow an accumulation of feces, urine or other waste material to accumulate.
(Ord. 3198, passed 9-16-08)