A. Removal Required:
1. The owner of any animal or any person having the custody or control of any animal shall be responsible for immediately cleaning up any feces of the animal and disposing of such feces in a clean and sanitary manner.
2. Every occupant of a dwelling unit, or owner if the dwelling unit is not occupied, shall remove animal feces from the unit, the yard, or lot on which the unit is located, or from any structure appurtenant to the unit which they control and dispose of such animal feces in a clean and sanitary manner.
B. It is unlawful for any person owning, keeping, harboring, or in custody of an animal to cause or permit the animal to be on property, public or private, not owned or possessed by such person without having in their immediate possession a device for removal of feces and depository for transmission of excrement to a proper receptacle located on the property owned or possessed by such person.
C. Any owner of any animal or any person having the custody or control of any animal shall immediately remove any feces left by such animals within a public property and dispose of such feces in a sanitary manner. The owner or any person having the custody or control of any animal, while in the public property shall possess, carry and keep readily available a device or item of equipment for picking up and removing dog feces.
D. The provisions of this section shall not apply to dogs accompanying a blind person or to a dog used by police or in rescue actions.
E. Any person that violates any provision of section 5-1-17 of this title herein is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding seven hundred dollars ($700.00) or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days or both, plus in either case, the costs of prosecution. (Ord. 406, sec. 7, 3-19-1990; amd. Ord. 1071, 10-19-2022)