(A) Persons responsible for an animal shall immediately remove the animal’s excrement from public lands, sidewalks and the right-of-way (property between sidewalks and the streets) or from the property of another, excepting a visually impaired person working with service dogs.
(B) Any person operating a motor vehicle who causes injury or death to an animal shall stop at once, assess the extent of the injury and immediately notify the owner, or the Animal Control Service or the Police Department.
(C) No animal shall be left unattended in a vehicle in excessive heat (as defined in the standardized veterinarians report) or when these conditions in the vehicle would constitute a health hazard to the animal.
(D) (1) It shall be unlawful and is hereby declared to be a public nuisance for any person to use, place, set or cause to be set within the town or upon lands owned by the town any traps except cage-type traps approved by the Animal Control Service and used for the control of unrestrained or potentially dangerous animals.
(2) This prohibition shall not apply to any trap specifically designed to kill rats, mice, gophers or moles so long as the owner of the property is aware of the location where the trap(s) are set and monitors said trap(s) at least once every 24 hours.
(3) Traps discovered by the Animal Control Service to have been unlawfully set in the town may be seized and used as prima facie evidence that a violation has been committed. Upon conviction, said trap(s) shall be forfeited to the town and disposed of by the Animal Control Service.
(E) Any person who shall become apprised of the death of any animal owned by him or her shall, within 12 hours thereafter, cause the same to be removed from the premises and taken to the Animal Control Service, veterinarian or cemetery for disposal.
(Ord. 2022-4, passed 9-22-2022) Penalty, see § 91.99