(a) No person shall trap any wild or domestic animal within the City through the use of leg-hold or body gripping traps. A leg-hold or body gripping trap is defined as any spring-powered device which captures or holds an animal by exerting lateral forces with fix mounted jaws on the leg, toe, paw, or any other part of the animal's body. This definition
specifically includes traps commonly known as "steel jaw traps" and "Conibear" traps.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit trapping with leg-hold or body gripping traps within water confines or limits of any lake, pond, river, or stream; of the use of live traps or living techniques insofar as they are not otherwise prohibited or regulated; or the trapping of mice or rats by commonly designated mice and rat traps.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for the first offense, a fourth-degree misdemeanor for the second office and a third-degree misdemeanor for any subsequent offense.
(Ord. 2023-47. Passed 8-14-23.)