(a) No person within the limits of the City shall knowingly feed and/or harbor any nuisance health risk animals.
(b) Medical treatment of any person or domestic animal required because of contact with nuisance health risk animals shall be at the cost of the person found in violation of subsection (a) hereof.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(d) In addition to any penalty proscribed in Section 501.99, the costs of any person or animal being tested for health problems caused by a violation of subsection (a) hereof shall be charged to the person found in violation of said subsection.
(e) This section shall not apply to licensed trappers or permitted hunters actively baiting nuisance health risk animals in order to lawfully trap or harvest such animals, or to any feral cat colony caretaker who has registered with an Animal Welfare Organization that is conducting a Trap-Neuter-Return ("TNR") program or the caretaker that is in compliance with all provisions of Section 505.30.
(f) It shall be an affirmative defense to the feeding of a feral cat that the cat previously was spayed or neutered. Evidence that the cat was ear-tipped shall constitute proof of this affirmative defense.
(Ord. 13-O-09. Passed 1-15-13; Ord. 17-O-21. Passed 3-7-17.)