(A) It shall be unlawful for any person owning or controlling any horse, cow, goat, hog, dog, cat, livestock, poultry, duck, goose, turkey, guinea, peafowl, or other animal or fowl, to allow the animal to run at large in the town; and it shall be lawful for any member of any law enforcement office to seize, impound, or destroy any animal or fowl running at large.
(B) Each person owning or controlling any animal or fowl shall keep the animal at all times either under his or her direct control or in a substantial pen, coop, stable, or enclosure.
(Prior Code, § 8-2002) (Ord. passed 9-25-1967; Ord. passed 4-10-2003) Penalty, see § 90.99
Statutory reference:
Authority to regulate domestic animals, see G.S. § 160A-186