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A. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to raise, keep or use any animal, fowl or bird for the purpose of fighting or baiting; and for any person to be a party to or be present as a spectator at any such fighting or baiting of any animal or fowl; and for any person, firm or corporation to knowingly rent any building, shed, room, yard, ground or premises for any such purposes as aforesaid, or to knowingly suffer or permit the use of such person's buildings, sheds, rooms, yards, grounds or premises for the purposes aforesaid.
B. Law enforcement officers or animal services officials may enter any building or place where there is an exhibition of the fighting or baiting of a live animal, or where preparations are being made for such an exhibition, and the law enforcement officers may arrest persons there present and take possession of all animals engaged in fighting or there found for the purposes of fighting, along with all implements or applications used in such exhibition. This provision shall not be interpreted to authorize a search or arrest without a warrant when such is required by law. (Ord. 69-99 § 6, 1999: prior code § 100-1-25(8))
A. Physical Abuse: It is unlawful for any person to wilfully or maliciously kill, maim, disfigure, torture, beat with a stick, chain, club or other object, mutilate, burn or scald, over drive or otherwise cruelly set upon any animal. Each offense shall constitute a separate violation.
B. Hobbling Animals: It is unlawful for any person to hobble livestock or other animals by any means which may cause injury or damage to any animal.
C. Care And Maintenance: It shall be the duty of any person to provide any animal in such person's charge or custody, as owner or otherwise, with adequate food, drink, care and shelter.
D. Animals In Vehicles: It is unlawful for any person to carry or confine any animal in or upon any vehicle in a cruel or inhumane manner, including, but not limited to, carrying or confining such animal without adequate ventilation or for an unusual length of time.
E. Abandonment Of Animals: It is unlawful for any person to abandon any animal within the jurisdiction.
F. Animal Poisoning: Except as provided in sections 8.04.450 through 8.04.450 of this chapter, or their successors, it is unlawful for any person by any means to make accessible to any animal, with intent to cause harm or death, any substance which has in any manner been treated or prepared with any harmful or poisonous substance. This provision shall not be interpreted as to prohibit the use of poisonous substances for the control of vermin in furtherance of the public health when applied in such a manner as to reasonably prohibit access to other animals.
G. Killing Of Birds: It is unlawful for any person to take or kill any bird(s), or to rob or destroy any nest, egg or young of any bird in violation of the laws of the state.
H. Malicious Impounding: It is unlawful for any person maliciously to secrete or impound the animal of another.
I. Abandoned, Diseased Or Painfully Crippled Animals:
1. It is unlawful for any person to abandon or turn out at large any sick, diseased or disabled animal, but such animal shall, when rendered worthless by reason of sickness or other disability, be killed in a humane manner by the owner thereof and disposed of as instructed after contacting the office of animal services.
2. It is further unlawful for the owner or person having the charge, care, custody and control of such animal infected with dangerous or incurable and/or painfully crippling condition to have, keep or harbor such animal without placing the same under veterinary care, or to dispose of the same. The failure to take such care is a violation of this title, and the office of animal services may take custody of such animals and deal with them as deemed appropriate under the circumstances.
J. Provoking, Taunting, Or Harassing Of Animals: It is unlawful for a person to provoke, taunt, or otherwise harass, any animal that is being kept, housed, or confined in compliance with this code. (Ord. 21-14, 2014)
The provisions of section 8.04.480 of this chapter, or its successor, shall not apply to state or local governmental agencies charged with the responsibility of animal control or wildlife management. (Prior code § 100-1-25.2)