No person owning, possessing or having charge of any dog shall permit such dog to be at large at any time in the city in violation of any of the following restrictions.
(A) No person shall permit any vicious dog of which he or she is the owner, caretaker or custodian to be unconfined unless securely muzzled and led by a leash. Any dog shall be deemed vicious which has bitten a person or domestic animal without molestation or which, by its actions, gives indication that it is liable to bite any person or domestic animal without molestation.
(B) No person who is an owner of any female dog shall permit or allow such female dog to go beyond the premises without being on a leash of such owner when said dog is in heat.
(C) No person shall own, harbor or keep a dog which by loud or frequent or habitual barking, yelping or howling shall cause annoyance to the people in the neighborhood.
(D) No person shall own, harbor or keep a dog that has been bitten by an animal known to have, or reasonably suspected of having been afflicted with, rabies at the time such dog was bitten, unless such dog shall have been surrendered to the Police Department or dog warden, held for observation and released by the Health Officer of the city.
(E) No person shall own, harbor or keep any dog, either licensed or unlicensed that, by the destruction of the property or trespassing on property of others, becomes a nuisance in the vicinity where kept.
(Ord. 123, passed 4-16-1996) Penalty, see § 10.99