(a) No person shall own, harbor, or keep any animals within the Municipality which, by frequent and habitual barking, howling or yelping, creates unreasonably loud and disturbing noises of such character, intensity and duration as to disturb the peace, quiet and good order of the Municipality.
(b) No person shall own, harbor, or keep any animal which by biting, scratching, digging, jumping, running, frolicking, urinating, defecating, vomiting, or otherwise, injures, damages, soils, defaces, or befouls any person, lawn tree, shrub, plant, building, street, sidewalk, or other public or private property without the permission of the owner or person in charge of such property. The restriction as to defecating imposed by this section shall not be applicable to public property when the owner, harborer, or keeper of such animal immediately and completely removes all feces deposited by such animal and disposes of same in a sanitary manner, nor to cases in which seeing eye dogs are leading legally blind persons.
(c) Any person who shall allow any animal habitually to remain, be lodged, or fed within any dwelling, building, yard or enclosure which he occupies or owns, shall be considered as harboring or keeping such animal for the purposes of this section.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for the first offense and a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for each subsequent offense.
(Ord. 1186. Passed 6-9-03.)