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The city hereby adopts the provisions of the Gaston County ordinance regulating dogs and other animals in the county, as it was adopted by the Board of County Commissioners in June of 1981, or as it may be amended, as an ordinance of the city, and authorizes the county animal shelter and its superintendent and animal control officers to enforce the provisions of that ordinance within the corporate limits of the city.
(1995 Code, § 8-6) (Ord. passed 8-17-1981)
All definitions and provisions of the ordinance regulating dogs and other animals in the county, as adopted by the Board of County Commissioners in June of 1981, or as may be amended, shall apply in the city except where provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of the ordinance regulating dogs and other animals in the county and the provisions of this chapter are more specific.
(1995 Code, § 8-7) (Ord. passed 8-17-1981)
Every person owning or having possession, charge, care, custody or control of any dog shall keep such dog exclusively upon his or her own premises, or on the private premises of another with prior consent only provided, however, that a dog may leave such premises only if:
(A) A dog is under restraint by virtue of being in the custody of a competent person and held by a leash, chain or other device of sufficient strength to maintain control by that person;
(B) A dog is under direct control by virtue of being in the custody of a competent person and sufficiently near that person to hear that person’s commands and is obedient to those commands;
(C) A dog is under direct control by virtue of being held within a secure enclosure as defined in the ordinance regulating dogs and animals in the county; or
(D) A dog is engaged in organized hunting activities on private property with the consent of the owner of that property, providing that the dog is obedient to the command to its owner.
(1995 Code, § 8-8) (Ord. passed 8-17-1981)
A dog belonging to an identifiable owner or other person not complying with the provisions of § 90.03 shall be deemed to be at large and a stray animal. A dog that roams at large with no apparent ownership shall also be deemed to be at large and a stray animal.
(1995 Code, § 8-9) (Ord. passed 8-17-1981)
The Gaston County animal shelter and its superintendent and animal control officers are hereby authorized to capture and impound and, in certain cases, tranquilize or humanely destroy, stray animals under §§ 90.01, 90.02, 90.03 and 90.04, in accordance with Section V, VI and VII and any other applicable sections of the county ordinance regulating dogs and other animals in the county.
(1995 Code, § 8-10) (Ord. passed 8-17-1981)
(A) It shall be unlawful to pen, harbor or otherwise maintain any pig, shoat, hog or swine of any kind within the corporate limits of the city.
(B) Any person who owns, leases, occupies or exercises any control over any lot, lots, tracts and/or parcels of land or any premises within the corporate limits of the city, who shall on said premises keep, harbor, pen or permit to run at large, any pig, shoat, hog or swine shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(C) This section shall be liberally construed as a public health measure and a prohibition of the keeping of swine within the corporate limits of the city, the same being detrimental to the health, comfort and welfare of the citizens of the city, and the keeping of swine within the city is hereby found to be and declared a common public nuisance and shall be forthwith abated and the continuance thereof prohibited as by law provided.
(1995 Code, § 8-11) (Ord. passed 10-5-1959) Penalty, see § 10.99
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