(A) No owner shall fail to provide his or her animals with good and wholesome food, water, proper shelter, protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to (prevent suffering) and with humane care and treatment.
(B) No person shall knowingly expose any known poisonous substance or toxic chemical so that the same be liable to be eaten by any animal, provided that it shall not be unlawful for a person to expose, on his or her property, common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substance.
(C) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, corporation or other entity to display, sell, offer for sale, trade or barter, or knowingly give away any diseased animal, or allow any diseased animal that is affected with a contagious disease to be exposed in any place of public access.
(2) This is not meant to interfere with the daily operation of an animal shelter or veterinary clinic.
(Ord. 99-715, passed 4-12-99) Penalty, see § 10.99