(A) Proper care of animals.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any owner or custodian of any animal to fail to provide the animal with any of the following:
(a) Clean water daily and sufficient, good and wholesome food;
(b) Proper shelter and protection from weather, including shade in summer and protection from extreme cold in winter;
(c) Appropriate veterinary care to prevent suffering and/or treat disease; a clean and wholesome living environment; and protection from abuse or misuse.
(2) No owner or custodian of any animal shall willfully abandon such animal on any street, road, highway or public place, or on private property, without the consent of the owner thereof to provide care for the animal.
(3) The owner or custodian of any animal which dies shall within 24 hours provide for the burial, cremation or other disposition of the body of such dead animal in a safe and sanitary manner.
(4) Animal control officers shall dispose of any animal found dead in the city whose owner or custodian cannot be readily ascertained by removing the body for disposition.
(5) No person shall dye or color any rabbit, baby chick, ducklings or other fowl or dog or cat or sell, offer for sale, barter or give away rabbits less than three weeks of age or dogs or cats less than six weeks of age for any purpose. Research facilities shall be exempt from the provision of this section.
(B) Sanitation requirements.
(1) No owner or custodian of any animal shall cause or allow such animal to soil, defile, urinate or defecate on any public property or upon any street sidewalk, public way, play area or common grounds owned jointly by the members of a homeowner’s or condominium association, or upon private property other than that of the owner unless such owner or custodian immediately removes and disposes of feces deposited by such animal by collection of the feces and removal of such to the property of the animal owner or custodian for disposition thereafter in a manner permitted by law.
(2) (a) No person owning, harboring or keeping an animal within the city shall permit any waste matter from the animal to collect and remain on any property so as to cause or create an unhealthy, unsanitary, dangerous or offensive living condition on the owner’s or custodian’s property or the property of others.
(b) Offensive living conditions shall include, but are not limited to, exposure to the odor of accumulated feces or urine.
(Ord. 602, passed 4-2-2008; Ord. 651, passed 6-3-2015) Penalty, see § 90.99