The following acts are unlawful:
(A) Cruelty to animals. To torture, torment, mutilate, cruelly beat, cruelly kill any animal or unnecessarily fail to provide the same with proper food, shelter or protection from the weather, or drive or work the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandon the same or cause the same to be cruelly carried on any vehicle or otherwise; or to commit any other act or omission by which unjustifiable pain, distress, suffering or death is caused or permitted to any animal or animals, whether the acts or omissions herein contemplated be committed either maliciously, willfully or negligently;
(B) Bullfights and other contests. To keep or use, or in any way be connected with, or be interested in the management of, or receive money for the admission of any person to, any place kept or used for the purpose of fighting or baiting any bull, bear, dog, cock or other creature, or to engage in, aid, abet, encourage or assist in any bull, bear, dog or cock fight, or a fight between any other creatures;
(C) Animals running at large. To allow cattle, horses, swine, sheep or other similar animals or fowl to run at large within the limits of the municipal corporation; and
(D) Bothersome animals. To keep donkeys or burros that frequently bray, or fowl that crow or frequently make loud and raucous calls to the frequent disturbance of a neighborhood; or keep bees that swarm to the disturbance and hazard of neighbors.
(Ord. 120-202-5, passed 10-10-1983)