(a) Running at Large; Barking or Howling. No person owning any dog or having any dog under his or her custody, shall permit such dog to be in violation of any of the following restrictions:
(1) No person shall permit any aggressive or dangerous dog of which he or she is the owner to be unconfined unless securely muzzled and led by a leash.
(2) No person who is the owner of any female dog shall permit or allow such female dog to go or reach beyond the premises of such owner when said dog is in heat.
(3) No person who is the owner of any dog four months of age or older shall permit it to be unconfined unless under the reasonable control of some person.
(4) No person who is the owner of any dog required to be licensed shall permit it to be unconfined at any time unless licensed as required by law and unless wearing its license tag and evidence of rabies immunization.
(5) No person shall own any dog which, by loud or frequent or habitual barking, yelping or howling, shall cause annoyance to the people in the neighborhood.
(6) No person shall allow any dog to run at large.
(7) A person who owns or has custody of a dog shall prevent the dog from engaging in nuisance behavior, i.e. from behaving as a nuisance dog as defined in this chapter. The owner of a dog shall prevent the dog from barking, whining or howling in an excessive, continuous, or untimely fashion.
(8) A person who owns or has custody of a dog shall prevent the dog from engaging in aggressive or dangerous behavior, i.e. from behaving like an aggressive or dangerous dog as defined in this chapter.
(b) Seizure and Impoundment. Any dog found running at large in the City may be seized and impounded by any public safety or animal control officer and delivered to the Ionia County Animal Shelter.
(c) Rabies Prevention. Any person who shall have in his or her possession a dog which has contracted rabies, which has been subjected to the same, which is suspected of having rabies or which has bitten any person, shall, upon demand of any public safety or animal control produce and surrender such dog to be held for observation.
(d) Exposure to Rabies; Notice. It shall be the duty of any person owning or harboring a dog which has been attacked or bitten by another dog or another animal showing the symptoms of rabies to immediately to notify the Public Safety Department or Animal Control Department of his or her possession of such dog.
(e) It shall be the duty of persons owning or possessing a dog to pick up the dog's excrement on public property or on private property not under his or her control or ownership and properly dispose of it.
(Ord. 491. Passed 2-7-12.)