1. Permitting animals to trespass. The owner, possessor or manager of any animal shall not permit the same to trespass upon the premises of another property owner without prior permission or he or she shall be in violation of this Part and shall have the burden of proving permission to trespass was granted.
2. At large animals prohibited.
A. No animal shall run at large in the Borough. Any person who is the owner or custodian of an animal found at large in the Borough shall be in violation of this Part. It shall be unlawful for any owner of an animal to place such animal or allow it to be placed in the custody of any other person not physically capable of maintaining effective control of such animal. This Section shall not apply to any person who uses an animal while engaged in a supervised formal obedience training class of show, or during formally sanctioned field trials.
B. It shall be the duty of the Borough official to seize and detain any animal, licensed or unlicensed, found running at large, either upon the public streets or highways of the Borough or on the property of any other person and unaccompanied by its owner or keeper. The Borough official is hereby authorized and empowered to go on any public premises and to enter any public building to seize and detain any animal which has been running at large unaccompanied by an owner or keeper when such Borough official is in immediate pursuit of such animal.
3. Clean-up of animal fecal matter.
A. No owner of any animal or any person having the care, custody and control of any animal shall permit the same to discharge or deposit any fecal matter upon the property of another without immediately removing such matter and disposing of it in a sanitary manner. The term “property of another” shall be interpreted to include the property of the Borough of Minersville or of any other political subdivision.
B. No owner or possessor of real property shall permit animal fecal matter to accumulate on such property for more than 24 hours and it shall be the owner’s or possessor’s responsibility to daily remove such matter to prevent any such accumulation from becoming a danger to public health.
(Ord. 1989-183, 1/10/1989, § 4)