No person owning or having in charge any horse, goat, mule, ass, cattle, sheep, swine, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowls, or other domestic fowl, shall permit the same to run at large within the city. No person owning or having in charge any horse, goat, mule, ass, cattle, sheep, or swine shall picket, herd, or pasture or leave unattended the same anywhere within the city. Any animal or fowl found running at large within the city, or otherwise found in violation of this section, is hereby declared a nuisance and may be impounded. Provided, this section shall not be construed to prohibit the confining of livestock in an enclosure on private grounds for a period not to exceed 30 days by a person or firm engaged in the business of buying, selling, and transporting livestock, if the confinement occurs solely as an incident to such transportation and is within concrete pens, the access to which is solely over concrete runways, and such pens and runways are washed and kept clean sufficiently to prevent all avoidable accumulation of manure and refuse and all avoidable odors. Provided, further, this section shall not be construed to prohibit the picketing, herding, or pasturing of animals on private grounds that on September 16, 1963, were being lawfully used for the picketing, herding, or pasturing of animals of such character, unless such use shall have been or shall be abandoned for a period of 12 months, in which event the use shall not be resumed. Provided further, this section shall not be applicable to mini-pigs, for which separate regulations are made.
(Ord. 3461, passed - -1995)