(A) Cruelty to animals. No person shall cruelly treat any animal in the city in any way. Any person who inhumanely beats, underfeeds, overloads or abandons any animal shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this section.
(B) Teasing, molesting, animals.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to tease, molest, bait or in any way bother any animal not belonging to him or her or not legally under his or her control.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to allow any animal under his or her control to tease, molest or harass any other animal within the city.
(C) Killing, injuring or poisoning animals or fowl.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully and maliciously kill, wound or injure any animal or fowl, the property of another, or to willfully and maliciously administer poison to any such animal or fowl, the property of another.
(2) This section shall not apply to the following situations:
(a) Authorized by the City Council. The City Council may authorize the killing of animals or fowl for a purpose determined to be necessary by the City Council. The City Council may determine the humane means of carrying out the City Council’s authorization; or
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to any governmental agency or to any employee or authorized agent thereof in the course of his or her employment or agency who in the course of their duties kills an animal or fowl pursuant to the authorization of the City Council.
(D) Fights between animals. No person shall allow any fight between any animals, in the city; nor shall any person keep any house, pit or other place to be used in permitting any fight between animals.
(Prior Code, § 4-A-05) (Ord. 1059, passed 1- -2008; Ord. 1126, passed 2–12-2013) Penalty, see § 90.99