No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any animal shall cause, suffer or allow such animal to defecate, or to commit any nuisance, on any public thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypass, play area, park or any place where people congregate or walk or upon any public property whatsoever or upon any private property without permission of the owner of said property unless the following conditions are met.
(A) The person who so owns, harbors, keeps or is in charge of such animal shall immediately remove, before the animal leaves the area, all excrement deposited by such animal by any sanitary method. The person shall possess a container of sufficient size to collect and remove the above-mentioned excrement and exhibit the container if requested by any official empowered to enforce this section.
(B) The excrement removed from the aforementioned areas shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of such animal, in a sanitary method, on the property of the person owning, harboring or in charge of said animal.
(C) It shall be likewise unlawful and a violation of this section for an owner to permit an accumulation of dog or other animal excretion or feces on premises owned and/or occupied by him or her, which accumulation shall result in an odor which can be detected by a person on an adjoining property.
(Ord. 151, passed 6-4-2002) Penalty, see § 10.99