It shall be unlawful for the owners or persons having custody of any animal to permit, either wilfully or through failure to exercise due care or control, any cruel acts upon any animal. "Cruel acts" are defined as follows:
(A) To place, leave or expose, making accessible to animals, any poisonous substance.
(B) To have, keep, or harbor any animal which is infected with any dangerous or incurable or painfully crippling condition, except as hereinafter provided. All such diseased or crippled animals with an incurable ailment taken into custody of the City shall be transferred to the Pound Master for impoundment. This Section shall not apply to animals within veterinary hospitals or under the care of a veterinarian, or having been diagnosed with any common, incurable disease where impoundment or quarantine is not recommended by a doctor of veterinary medicine.
(C) To fail, refuse, or neglect to provide any animal in their charge or custody as owner or otherwise, with food, drink, shade or weatherproof housing facilities, or to carry any animal in or upon any vehicle in a cruel or inhumane manner.
(D) To wilfully, or maliciously kill, maim, disfigure, tease, torture, beat with a stick, chain, club, or other object, mutilate, burn, scald with any substance, overdrive or other cruelty set upon any animal, except that a reasonable force may be employed to drive off vicious or trespassing animals.
(E) To hobble livestock or other animals by means of chains which are composed of tempered or other permanent wire links.
(F) To drive or work any animal in a cruel manner when such animal is unfit for such work.
(G) To promote, stage, hold, manage, conduct, carry on, or attend any game, exhibition, contest, or fight in which one or more animals are engaged for the purpose of injuring, killing, maiming, or destroying themselves or any other animal or person.
(H) No person shall keep upon any premises, any animals in a foul, offensive, obnoxious, filthy or unsanitary condition. (Ord. 97-5, 8-18-1997)