(A)
No person shall keep any pig, horse, cow, goat, no more than three dogs at least three months of age in any pen, yard, lot or other enclosure situated within the city.
(B) The owner or keeper of any dog shall keep any pen, yard, lot or other enclosure for said dog in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors. Any fowl or poultry shall be maintained in a pen or other enclosure more than 100 feet from any inhabited dwelling other than the dwelling house of the owner of such fowl or poultry; and said pen/enclosure shall be kept in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors.
(‘74 Code, § 91.46)
(C) This section shall not limit the number of handicapped assistance dogs which may be housed outside of a principal dwelling so long as there is no more than one handicapped assistance dog for any one disabled person upon the premises requiring the use of
such dog. This exception is intended to provide equal accessibility for all owners of dogs that are trained as assistance dogs in a manner that is no less than that required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, being 42 USC 12101 et seq. For purposes of this section, a HANDICAPPED ASSISTANCE DOG shall be defined to be a guide dog, a signal dog or a service dog.
(1) A GUIDE DOG means a seeing eye dog or other dog that meets the definitional criteria under federal regulations adopted to implement Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
(2) A SIGNAL DOG means any dog trained to alert a deaf person or a person who is hearing impaired to intruders or sound.
(3) A SERVICE DOG means any dog individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit on an individual with disability, including but not limited to minimal protective work, rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, fetching dropped items, or seizure detection.
(Ord. 17-1840, passed 12-19-17)
Penalty, see § 95.99