(a) No person shall keep within the Municipality any dog which by barking, biting, howling or by any other manner or action injures or disturbs the peace and quiet of another person, or which destroys or damages any other person's lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or other property.
(b) On the complaint of any person that an animal owned, harbored or kept in the City created noise or committed damage as provided in subsection (a) hereof, the Police Department shall notify the owner of such animal of the complaint and order him to permanently abate such nuisance. No person shall fail to comply with such order.
(c) Any animal which scratches, digs, urinates or defecates upon any lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or any other public or private property, other than the property of the owner or person in charge or control of such animal, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
(d) No person being the owner or in charge or control of any dog shall allow or permit such dog to commit a nuisance upon any school grounds, City park, or other public property, or upon any private property other than that of the owner or person in charge or control of such dog without the permission of the owner of such property. Where the owner or person in charge or control of such dog immediately removes all feces deposited by such dog and disposes of same in a sanitary manner, such nuisance shall be considered abated.
(e) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 93-88. Passed 10-11-88.)