(a) No person who is the owner or keeper of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, dogs, geese or other fowl or animals shall permit them to run at large upon any public way, upon any publicly or privately owned unenclosed land, or upon any private property where notice is posted that animals must be on a leash, other than such private property owned or possessed by the owner or person having control of such animal.
(Ord. 2019-37. Passed 6-10-19.)
(Ord. 2019-37. Passed 6-10-19.)
(b) The running at large of any such animal in or upon any of the places mentioned in subsection (a) hereof is prima-facie evidence that it is running at large in violation of this Section.
(c) Except when a dog is lawfully engaged in hunting and accompanied by the owner, keeper, haborer, or handler of the dog, no owner, keeper, or harborer of any dog shall fail at any time to do either of the following:
(1) Keep the dog physically confined or restrained upon premises of the owner, keeper, or harborer by a leash, tether, adequate fence, supervision, or secure enclosure to prevent escape.
(2) Keep the dog under control of some person and on a leash not more than eight feet long. (Ord. 2023-39. Passed 8-14-23.)
(d) For purposes of this section, "under control" is defined in Section 618.19
(b)(1),(2), and (3) of these Codified Ordinances.
(e) Whoever violates subsections (a) or (c)(1) of this Section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02
.
(f) Whoever violates subsections (c)(2) of this Section is guilty of the corresponding misdemeanor set forth in Section 618.19
(c). (Ord. 2016-26. Passed 9-12-16.)