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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 503 Unlawful Discriminatory Practices
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 507 Civil Emergencies
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 511 Fireworks
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 543 Trees and Noxious Vegetation
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - NUISANCE AND PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
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505.25 HUNTING PROHIBITED.
   (a)   No person shall hunt, kill or attempt to kill any animal or fowl by the use of firearms, bow and arrow, air rifle or any other means within the corporate limits of the Municipality.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 76-96. Passed 6-10-96; Ord. 72-03. Passed 9-8-03.)
505.27 COLORING RABBITS OR BABY POULTRY; SALE OR DISPLAY OF POULTRY.
   (a)   No person within the Municipality shall dye or otherwise color any rabbit or baby poultry, including, but not limited to, chicks and ducklings. No person within the Municipality shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, raffle or give away any rabbit or baby poultry which has been dyed or otherwise colored. No poultry younger than four weeks of age may be sold, given away or otherwise distributed to any person in lots of less than six. Stores, shops, vendors and others offering young poultry for sale or other distribution shall provide and operate brooders or other heating devices that may be necessary to maintain poultry in good health, and shall keep adequate food and water available to the poultry at all times.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 76-96. Passed 6-10-96; Ord. 72-03. Passed 9-8-03.)
505.29 RIDING ANIMAL ON SIDEWALK PROHIBITED.
   (a)   No person shall ride any horse, colt, pony or other animal upon any sidewalk within the Municipality.
   (b)   No parent or guardian or person having the care, custody or control of a minor child shall knowingly allow the child to ride a horse, colt, pony or other animal upon any sidewalk within in the Municipality.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 76-96. Passed 6-10-96; Ord. 72-03. Passed 9-8-03.)
505.31 MARKETING WILD OR EXOTIC ANIMALS.
   (a)   No person shall market in any form, wholesale or retail, any vicious, dangerous, wild, or exotic animals within the municipality.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor in the second degree. Each day such section is violated shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 76-96. Passed 6-10-96; Ord. 72-03. Passed 9-8-03; Ord. 107-19. Passed 9-23-19.)
505.33 KEEPING WILD OR EXOTIC ANIMALS.
   (a)   No person shall own or harbor any wild or exotic animal or animal within the municipality unless otherwise permitted under Ohio law.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor in the second degree. Each day such violation occurs or continues shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 76-96. Passed 6-10-96; Ord. 72-03. Passed 9-8-03; Ord. 107-19. Passed 9-23-19.)
505.35 CONTROL AND HARBORING OF VICIOUS OR DANGEROUS DOGS AND OTHER VICIOUS OR DANGEROUS ANIMALS.
   (a)   No person shall own, keep, or harbor any vicious dog or other vicious animal, as defined in section 505.01(m) within the municipality.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, on each subsequent offense is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and the vicious dog or other vicious animal shall be seized, impounded; and humanely destroyed.
(Ord. 76-96. Passed 6-10-96; Ord. 131-2000. Passed 11-27-00; Ord. 72-03. Passed 9-8-03.)
505.37 DANGEROUS DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS; PERMIT REQUIRED; FEE; IMPOUNDING.
   (a)   In addition to registration of a dog as required by Section 505.07 and R.C. §§ 955.03 and 955.09, the owner, keeper or harborer of a dangerous dog as defined in 505.01(b) shall pay a permit fee to own, keep or harbor a dangerous dog to the City of Reynoldsburg and obtain the permit from the Chief of Police at a cost set in the City's fee schedule for such permit in addition to the payment of any fee for registration of the dog as required by the Ohio Revised Code and these Codified Ordinances.
      (1)   The owner, keeper, or harborer of such dangerous dog shall pay for the permit at the Reynoldsburg City Auditor's Office and receive a receipt. The receipt shall be presented to the Chief of Police in order to obtain a permit.
   (b)   (1)   The permit to own, keep or harbor a dangerous dog shall be valid only during the calendar year in which the permit is issued, and during the first twenty (20) days of the following calendar year.
      (2)   The permit fee for any dangerous dog is set in the City's fee schedule if purchased prior to July 1st of any calendar year. If the permit is purchased on or after July 1st of any calendar year, the permit fee is half the rate set in the City's fee schedule.
   (c)   No owner, keeper or harborer of a dangerous dog, as defined in Section 505.01(b), shall fail to publicly display a sign on the premises where the dangerous dog is kept or harbored that notifies the public of the presence of a dangerous dog on the property of the owner, keeper or harborer. The owner, keeper or harborer of the dog shall provide such sign which shall contain, in lettering that is at least two (2) inches in height, the statement "caution, beware of dangerous dog" or other statement that provides reasonable notice of the presence of a dangerous dog on the premises.
   (d)   No person shall own, keep, or harbor any dangerous dog, as defined in Section 505.01(b) without registering and obtaining a permit as required in divisions (a) and (b) of this section for such dangerous dog.
   (e)   Any owner, keeper or harborer of any dangerous dog as defined in Section 505.01(b), shall provide satisfactory evidence of the fact that the dangerous dog has been neutered or spayed.
   (f)   Any owner, keeper, or harborer of a dangerous dog as defined in Section 505.01(b), shall provide satisfactory evidence of the fact that the dog has been permanently identified by means of a microchip and the dog's microchip number.
   (g)   Whoever violates division (c), (d), (e) or (f) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and the animal control officer shall seize and impound the dangerous dog in the municipality, pursuant to R.C. § 955.22(A) to (D), until such time as the owner, keeper or harborer of the dangerous dog demonstrates compliance with R.C. § 955.22(A) to (D). If the owner does not comply with the provisions of R.C. § 955.22(A) to (D) within three (3) days of such seizure, then the dangerous dog shall be humanely destroyed.
   (h)   No owner, keeper or harborer of a dangerous dog as defined in Section 505.01(b) shall fail to report to the City animal control officer or a police officer the theft or loss of a dangerous dog within five (5) hours of the discovery of the theft or loss.
   (i)   Whoever violates division (h) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 76-96. Passed 6-10-96; Ord. 77-01. Passed 6-25-01; Ord. 72-03. Passed 9-8-03; Ord. 10-2020. Passed 1-27-20.)
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