(A) The owner or keeper of any animal shall keep such animal under restraint at all times and shall not permit such animal to be at large.
(B) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any animal to permit the animal to be upon any public street, sidewalk or right-of-way, unless it is kept secured by a leash or lead by other means of restraint not harmful or injurious to the animal and under the control of a responsible person capable of physically restraining the animal.
(C) Unless otherwise provided in this section, any person found who does not restrain his or her animal, in accordance with this section, whether such person be the owner or custodian of such animal shall be issued a summons for violation of this section by a city animal control officer or police officer.
(D) This section shall not apply to any person who has a dog on his or her private property and has control of the dog by direct supervision through visual observation and verbal command or uses a dog under his or her direct supervision while lawfully hunting or while engaged in a supervised obedience training class or show.
(E) Any dog or other animal trained for enforcement purposes and used by the Police Department or other legitimate law enforcement agencies shall not be considered to be running at large if the animal is under the visual and verbal control of its handler, trainer or police officer with or without specific restraints.
(Prior Code, § 5-4-8) (Ord. 845, passed 6-16-2015) Penalty, see § 98.99