(A) Every owner of an animal within the city shall:
(1) Keep such animal in a clean, sanitary and healthy area. No animal shall be confined in an area so as to be forced to stand, sit or lie in its own excreta.
(2) Not confine an animal in an area littered with debris or any other obstacles which would impair, prohibit or reduce the animal's movement or cause injury within such area of confinement.
(3) Confine his or her animals in an area of sufficient size to permit such animals to exercise and move about.
(4) Not prevent in any way any animal from seeking proper shelter by chaining, roping or fencing in any animal.
(5) Not tether a dog by a choker collar, or on a chain or similar means of restraint less than ten feet in length or of such weight as to prevent such animal from moving about or causing injury to such animal.
(6) Not fail to provide his or her animals with sufficient, wholesome food and clean water.
(7) Not fail to provide his or her animal with proper, soundly and effectively constructed shelter and protection from varying elements of the weather at all times.
(8) Not fail to provide humane and veterinary care and counsel for sick, injured or diseased animals and shall segregate such animals from the healthy so as to prevent transmittal of any sickness or disease.
(B) No person shall beat, cruelly ill treat, torment, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse or mistreat any animal.
(C) No person shall injure or cause to be injured any animal by means of any motor vehicle, firearm, or any other instrument or object and fail to immediately report the existence, location, description and tag number, if any, of the injured animal to the humane society and in doing so give his or her name and address.
(D) No person shall abandon any animal on any place public or private, including any public or private highway, or road, or upon the property of another.
(E) No person shall keep or use any animal for the purpose of fighting or cause or permit any fighting or other combat between animals. No person shall be a party to or be present as a spectator to any such fighting or other combat between animals. No person shall knowingly suffer or permit the use of any building, yard, ground or any other premises belonging to any person for any fighting or other combat between animals; and no person shall carry, haul or deliver any animal for the aforementioned purposes.
(F) No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the substance shall be liable to be consumed by any animal.
(G) It shall not be considered a violation of this section for the owner of a golf course, or its employees or agents, to take the actions prescribed in § 130.04(E) concerning the discharge of firearms at nuisance animals.
(‘79 Code, § 3-3) (Ord. 768, passed 7-10-79; Am. Ord. 26-2000, passed 11-28-00; Am. Ord. 06-2014, passed 6-3-14) Penalty, see § 91.99
Statutory reference:
Animal cruelty, see I.C. 35-46-3-7 through 35-46-3-12