(a) No person shall allow any animal under his or her ownership or control or leave its excrement on any private or public property unless that excrement is promptly and thoroughly removed from the property. Provided, however, a person may fail to remove the excrement from private property which that person owns or in which he or she has a lawful possessory interest.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to appear with any animal on any private or public property unless that person has then in his or her possession an appropriate device for the immediate and thorough removal of any animal excrement. Provided, however, the owner or lawful occupant of a vacant parcel of real property or a parcel of real property on which there is located a single-family residence, may appear on his or her property with an animal without possessing such a device.
(c) Penalty. A violation of this provision shall constitute a municipal civil infraction, which, upon an admission or finding of responsibility, shall result in a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) per incident.
(Ord. 2002-5. Passed 11-7-02.)