(A) Every person keeping or harboring any animal shall provide such animal with sufficient wholesome and nutritious food, water in sufficient quantities, proper air, shelter space, and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, and humane care and treatment.
(B) No person shall beat, ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate, or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight, other combat between animals or animals and humans.
(C) No person keeping or harboring an animal shall abandon such animal.
(D) Every person keeping or harboring any animal shall keep or harbor such animal in a sanitary and clean place that is free from all refuse, obnoxious odors and animal offal, or spoiled food.
(E) No person owning, harboring, keeping, or in charge of any animal shall cause, suffer, or allow:
(1) Such animal to soil, defile, defecate, or to commit any nuisance on any public thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypass, play area, park, or any place where people congregate or walk, or upon any public property whatsoever, or upon any private property without permission of the owner of said property unless such person has in his or her immediate possession an appropriate device for scooping excrement and an appropriate depository for the transmission of excrement to a receptacle located on property owned or possessed such person; or
(2) This division does not apply to a person who is visually or physically handicapped where such handicap prevents such person from complying with this division.
(F) Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render such assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report such injury or death to the person keeping or harboring such animal; in the event the person keeping or harboring such animal cannot be ascertained and located, such operator shall at once report the accident to the Village Police Department.
(G) No person shall willfully and maliciously expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be liable to be eaten by any animal, except that it shall not be unlawful to expose on one’s own property common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substances.
(1984 Code, § 3-01-060) (Ord. 261, passed 12-1-1998) Penalty, see § 90.99