(a) No person shall own, harbor, or keep any farm animal within the City for any purpose or use, whether agricultural or produce based, grazing or otherwise, including but not limited to keeping any such animal as a pet, regardless of whether the pet is residentially maintained indoors or outdoors. Farm animals include, but are not limited to: chickens, ducks, geese or any other fowl, sheep, goats, horses, cattle, swine or any other hoofed animal, also dwarf or miniature subcategories of these animals, such as potbelly pigs, Nigerian dwarf goats, and Shetland ponies.
(b) No person shall own, harbor, or keep any wild, dangerous, or undomesticated animal within the City. A wild, dangerous or undomesticated animal is any animal whose natural habitat is the wilderness and which, when maintained in a human society, is usually confined in a zoological park and which includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(1) Venomous creatures, including spiders and reptiles.
(2) Constrictor snakes unless such animal is at all times kept in a structure, cage or other secure place separating such animal from the general public, customary invitees to the premises, and children who may be on the premises.
(3) Any animal by reason of its size, strength or appetite, which would, if unrestrained and free in the City, cause peril to persons, household pets, buildings, landscape or shrubbery.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 50-18. Passed 11-26-18.)