(a) No person shall keep, harbor or maintain or knowingly permit to be kept, harbored or maintained within the City any domestic fowl or pigeon or any swine or other animal including, but not limited to, cattle, horses, mules, ponies or other animals which cannot be or ordinarily are not kept and maintained as house pets.
(b) Any person who, being the owner, lessor or occupant of any lot or parcel of land within the City, and who keeps, harbors or maintains, or who knowingly permits to be kept, harbored or maintained any animal or fowl prohibited in the City by subsection (a) hereof upon any such lot or parcel of land, or who neglects or refuses to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned by the keeping and maintaining of such animal or fowl upon any such lot or parcel of land within twenty-four hours after such person has knowledge of the existence of such nuisance or within twenty-four hours after service of notice thereof in writing from the Mayor, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
(c) Upon conviction under the provisions of subsection (b) hereof, the person convicted shall, within twenty-four hours after such conviction, remove or cause to be removed such animals and fowl from any such lot or parcel of land and his failure to do so shall constitute a second offense against the provisions of this section. The continued failure or refusal of such convicted person to remove such animals and fowl from such lot or parcel of land shall constitute a separate, distinct and additional offense for each successive twenty-four hour period of such failure and refusal, and upon conviction of such second offense or of any subsequent offense such person shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).