505.08 NUISANCE CONDITIONS PROHIBITED.

   (a)   No person shall keep or harbor any animal or fowl in the Municipality so as to create noxious and offensive odors or unsanitary conditions which are a menace to the health, comfort or safety of the public.

   (b)   Subject to the requirements of Section 505.09 as to loud dogs, any animal, including dogs, which by biting, excessive barking, whining or howling or in any other way or manner, injures or disturbs the quiet of any person or persons or attacks or otherwise injures any person or any other domestic animal or destroys or damages any lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or other property (other than the property of the owner or person in charge or control of such animal) by scratching, digging, running, defecating, urinating or otherwise, is hereby declared a nuisance. No person, being the owner or in charge or control of any animal, shall permit such animal to be or create such nuisance.

   (c)   No person, being the owner or in charge or control of any animal, shall continue to keep or harbor within the City any animal which is or creates a nuisance as described in subsection (b) hereof, unless such animal is confined or otherwise kept under such strict control as to abate the nuisance. Where the owner or person in charge or control of such animal immediately removes all feces deposited by such animal and disposes of same in a sanitary manner, that such nuisance shall be considered vacated.

(Ord. 94-90. Passed 9-25-90.)

   (d)   No person shall allow an animal under their control to be upon public property or upon the property of another, absent the consent of the owner or occupant of the property, without some device designed or intended for the removal or containment of such animal’s excrement; nor shall any person fail to immediately remove any excrement deposited upon public property or upon the property of another by any animal under their control.

(Ord. 82-2002. Passed 9-10-02.)

   (e)   Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 94-90. Passed 9-25-90.)