(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 right-of-way. This section does not apply to animals owned by that person, or to song birds fed from a stationary bird feeder.
(b) No person shall purposely or knowingly feed, cause to be fed, or provide food for wild white-tail deer in any location where undomesticated animals can access such food, whether by hand or through ground-feeding stations, salt licks or other established mechanisms to feed wild white-tail deer, on lands publicly or privately owned.
(c) This section shall not apply to a law enforcement officer, game officer or conservation officer enforcing the laws of the State of Ohio or any local ordinances, nor to anyone officially authorized by the City to engage in an animal control program.
(d) The City may initiate a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive and other relief for any violation of this section.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for the first offense, and a misdemeanor of the first degree for each subsequent offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day on or during which a violation of the ordinance occurs. (Ord. 2016-55. Passed 8-1-16.)