(A) Any animal or other fowl kept exclusively or partly outdoors must be limited to the owner’s property. When off the owner’s property, the animal must be restrained by a container, leash, or other harness.
(B) Any female animal displaying signs of being ready to procreate must be securely confined in such a way as to not attract male animals.
(C) Any animal, which by frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking, screeching, or other vocalization, for more than one-half hour, may be considered as causing serious annoyance or disturbance of persons in the vicinity, and shall be liable to penalty.
(D) No person shall knowingly allow his, her, or their animal to disperse waste material upon any public street, byway, or right-of-way, or any municipally-owned public land or building. All persons shall exercise due diligence in the safe and legal disposal of all animal excrement or waste on his, her, or their personal property.
(E) Animal cruelty in the form of lack of nutrition, proper housing, medical care, participation in violent sports such as cockfighting, endangerment of neighbors to disease, shall be punishable by both criminal and civil sanctions. Any person proven to have maliciously harmed or killed an animal may face criminal action under I.C. 35-46-3.
(Ord. 8 of 2017, passed 11-20-2017) Penalty, see § 90.99