618.24 FEEDING OF WILD LIFE AND STRAY ANIMALS PROHIBITED.

   (a)   No person shall provide food for dogs, cats, deer, geese, ducks, raccoons, fowl or other wild animals or wildlife by setting such food out on any public property or within a 150 yard radius of any private residence or public roadway. This section does not apply to animals owned by a person or song birds fed from an elevated stationary feeder which is at least forty-eight inches from ground level, and built of such design and construction as to minimize the potential for food and/or seed from spilling or dropping to the ground.

   (b)   No person maintaining a bird feeder in accordance with this section shall allow spilled food or seed to remain under or around the stationary feeder.

   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for the first offense, a fourth degree misdemeanor for the second offense, a third degree misdemeanor for the third offense and a second degree misdemeanor for the fourth or subsequent offense. Penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.

(Ord. 2009-39. Passed 11-10-09.)