§ 90.06 DOGS.

   (A)   Abandonment prohibited. No dog owner shall abandon any dog or dog carcass within the city limits.

   (B)   Dog bites. Any person knowing of a case of a human being bitten by a dog shall immediately notify the poundkeeper/dog warden or Chief of Police, who shall then impound the dog for a period of 14 days, at the owner’s expense, before surrendering the dog to its owner. The dog warden or Chief of Police may allow the owner of the dog to impound it if the owner has adequate facilities.

   (C)   Number of dogs restricted. Each family or household unit is limited to the possession of three dogs.

   (D)   Running at large prohibited. The owner of any dog shall not allow it to run at large. Any dog running at large, whether or not licensed, shall be subject to the provisions in §§ 90.04 and 90.99 of this chapter.

   (E)   Animal noise; disturbing peace and quiet.

      (1)   No person owning, operating, having charge of or occupying any building or premises shall keep or allow to be kept any animal which shall, by any noise, unreasonably disturb the peace and quiet of any person in the vicinity.

      (2)   The phrase UNREASONABLY DISTURB THE PEACE shall include, but is not limited to, the creation of any noise by any animal which can be heard by any person (which may include members of the Police Department) from a location outside of the building or premises where the animal is being kept and which animal noise occurs repeatedly over at least a five-minute period of time with one minute or less lapse of time between each animal noise during the five-minute period.

   (F)   Animal clean-up.

      (1)   (a)   Any person having the custody or control of any animal shall have the responsibility for cleaning up any feces of any animal and disposing of such feces in a sanitary manner. It shall be the duty of any person having custody or control of any animal on or about any public place to have in that person’s possession suitable equipment for the picking up, removal and sanitary disposal of animal feces.

         (b)   For the purposes of this division (F), PUBLIC PLACE shall include any property open for the public use, such as privately owned parking lots or other areas where the public is invited or allowed on private property.

      (2)   The provisions of this section shall not apply to seeing eye dogs used by blind persons, service dogs for disabled persons or dogs used when engaged in police activities in the city.

(1994 Code, § 2-6) (Ord. 22, passed 4-24-1997) Penalty, see § 90.99