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(a) No person shall dye or otherwise color any rabbit or baby poultry, including, but not limited to, chicks and ducklings. No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, raffle or give away any rabbit or baby poultry which has been dyed or otherwise colored. No poultry younger than four weeks of age may be sold, given away or otherwise distributed to any person in lots of less than three. Stores, shops, vendors and others offering young poultry for sale or other distribution shall provide and operate brooders or other heating devices that may be necessary to maintain poultry in good health, and shall keep adequate food and water available to the poultry at all times.
(ORC 925.62)
(ORC 925.62)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) No person shall kill or injure any wild bird, or shall throw, fire or shoot a bullet, stone, arrow, or other missile at such bird, or shall break, tear down or destroy any bird’s nest or the eggs or other contents of such nest; or shall catch or capture any wild bird, or set traps or spread nets or snares, with intent to catch or capture such, or shall follow or pursue any wild bird with intent to capture it.
(Ord. 85-66. Passed 7-28-66.)
(Ord. 85-66. Passed 7-28-66.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) Definition and Prohibition. No person shall keep, maintain or have in his or her possession or under his or her control within the City any dangerous animal. A “dangerous animal” means and includes any wild mammal, reptile or fowl which is not naturally tame or gentle but is of a wild nature or disposition and which because of its size, vicious nature or other characteristics would constitute a danger to human life or property. Dangerous animals include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Any poisonous animal, fish or reptile
(2) Alligators
(3) Apes, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas, orangutans, siamangs
(4) Baboons
(5) Bears
(6) Bison
(7) Bobcats
(8) Cheetahs
(9) Crocodilians
(10) Constriction snakes
(11) Coyotes
(12) Deer
(13) Elephants
(14) Foxes
(15) Game cocks and other fighting birds
(16) Hippopotami
(17) Hyenas
(18) Jaguars.
(19) Leopards.
(20) Lions.
(21) Lynxes.
(22) Ostriches.
(23) Piranha fish.
(24) Pumas, also known as cougars, mountain lions and panthers.
(25) Rhinoceroses.
(26) Sharks.
(27) Snow leopards.
(28) Tigers.
(29) Wolves.
(b) Exceptions. This section does not apply to any circus or to any person while transporting any animal, fish, fowl or reptile through the City provided that the animal, fish, fowl or reptile is adequately restrained to avoid injury to persons or damage to property; the keeping of such animals in a bona fide, licensed veterinary hospital for treatment; the keeping of such animals for exhibit to the public by an exhibit or show temporarily within the City, for a period not to exceed seven days unless prior written approval for a longer period is received from the Mayor; or the keeping of such animals in bona fide educational or medical institutions, museums or any other place where they are kept as live specimens for the public view, or for the purpose of instruction or study. Dangerous or poisonous reptiles may be maintained by bona fide educational or medical institutions for the purpose of instruction or study, provided such reptiles are securely confined.
(c) Penalty. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Each day that such violation continues shall be considered a separate violation.
(Ord. 16-84. Passed 3-26-84.)
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