(a) Running At Large. It shall be unlawful for the owner, or any other person having the possession, care, custody or control thereof to permit any domestic feline to run at large upon public streets, walks, parks, or other public places within the City, unless such domestic feline is restrained by a leash or in such other manner as to be kept under the control of the person accompanying said domestic feline. It shall be unlawful for the owner, or any other person having the possession, care, custody or control thereof, to permit any domestic feline to go upon any private property within the City, without the permission of the owner or occupant of such property.
(b) Limitation on Number of Domestic Felines.
(1) For the purpose of this section, the word "household" shall mean a building or portion thereof designed for occupancy by one family for residential purposes.
(2) An owner shall not keep or harbor more than a total of three domestic felines of the age four months or over in any household.
(c) Harboring of Meowing Cats. No person shall keep or harbor a domestic feline which, by loud or frequent or habitual meowing shall cause a serious annoyance to the neighborhood or to people passing to and from upon the streets.
(d) Yard Cleanliness. Yards and exercise runs shall be kept free of droppings and uneaten food and maintained in a sanitary manner so as not to be a nuisance because of odor or attraction of flies or vermin.
(e) Sanitation; Responsibility of Owner. No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any domestic feline shall cause, suffer or allow such domestic feline to soil, defile, defecate or to commit any nuisance on any public thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypass, play area, park or any place where people congregate or walk or upon any public property whatsoever or upon any private property without permission of the owner of said property unless:
(1) The person who so owns, harbors, keeps or is in charge of such domestic feline shall immediately remove all droppings by any sanitary method. The person shall possess a container of sufficient size to collect and remove all such droppings and present the container if requested by any official empowered to enforce this section; and,
(2) The droppings so removed are disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of such domestic feline in a sanitary method on the property of the person owning, harboring or in charge of such domestic feline.
(Ord. 820. Passed 12-28-05.)