(A) No person, except a law enforcement officer during the course of performing official duties, shall within the City permit any dog, cat, or other animal owned, kept, in the care of, in the possession of, or controlled by such person to be or run upon any street, sidewalk, or any other public place or public property or upon the private property of another person or the private property of such person not enclosed with a secure fence or enclosure. An animal shall not be deemed to be running at large if restrained by a leash, cord, chain, not exceeding ten feet in length or confined within a secure animal carrier or confined within a motor vehicle.
(B) No person, except a law enforcement officer during the course of performing official duties, shall within the City allow or permit any dog, cat, or other animal owned, kept, in the care of, in the possession of, or controlled by such person to go upon the private premises of any other person without the consent of said other person, whether said animal is restrained or not.
(C) In the event any dog, cat or other animal is apprehended while running at large within the City and detained or confined within the facilities of the Jefferson County Animal Shelter or other City authorized facility, then the owner, keeper or other person claiming and removing the animal from the facilities shall pay a ten dollar ($10.00) reclamation fee, in addition to any other fees or charges imposed by the facility or other authority.
(D) No person, except a law enforcement officer during the course of performing official duties, shall within the City permit or allow any dog, cat, or other animal owned, kept, in the care of, in possession of, or controlled by such person to annoy, endanger, chase, molest, menace, attack, harass, threaten, bite, or injure any person or other animal; any such dog, cat, or other animal which shall annoy, endanger, chase, molest, menace attack, harass, threaten, bite, or injure any person or other animal is hereby declared to be a nuisance and shall be taken up and impounded. Any person who shall be the owner, keeper, caretaker, or in control of such animal and who shall know or be notified that such animal has bitten or injured any person so as to cause an abrasion of the skin shall, immediately and without delay, deliver such animal to the rabies control officer for impoundment so that such animal may be securely confined for not less than two weeks. If any such animal described above cannot be safely taken up and impounded, it shall be slain by any police officer or rabies control officer of the City, and if any such animal having been slain shall have bitten or caused an abrasion to any person, the carcass of such animal shall be delivered to the rabies control officer.
(E) No person shall within the City allow or permit any dog, cat, or other animal owned, kept, in the care of, in possession of, or controlled by such person to damage, soil, or defecate upon any street, sidewalk, park, public property or any other public place nor upon the private property of another person. Any person having the custody, possession, or control of any dog, cat, or other animal shall remove immediately any feces left by such animal upon any public property or public place or upon any such private property and dispose of same in a sanitary manner. As to any property owned or possessed by a person who owns, keeps, cares for, or controls any dog, cat, or other animal, such animal’s feces and waste upon such property shall be disposed of as frequently as necessary to prevent an odor, unsanitary condition or other nuisance.
(F) No person shall, within the City, overload, overwork, beat, torture, or commit any cruel act upon any animal nor shall any person abandon any animal within the City.
(G) No person shall, within the City, neglect any dog, cat, or other animal owned, kept, in the care of, or in control by such person. Neglect is hereby defined to be any act involving failure to provide for animal health or safety, including, but not limited to failure to provide adequate food, water, shelter, exercise, ventilation, or necessary veterinary care to an animal, or to adequately confine an animal in a manner appropriate to its species, breed, age, and condition; neglect shall also include leaving an animal unattended in a motor vehicle or other confinement without adequate ventilation or under circumstances where said animal is exposed to excessive heat or other harmful conditions.
(Prior Code, Art. 12, § 12.17)