(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon any animal within the city. Any person with the city desiring to in any way abandon an unwanted animal may take such animal to the Animal Control Department and upon payment of the required fee to the Animal Control Department or its assignee, and upon relinquishment of ownership, full and complete authority is given the Animal Control Department to make such disposition of the animal as the Animal Control Department may deem satisfactory.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to board, own, harbor or keep more than a total of either three adult dogs or cats within the city limits except for the operation of a kennel. An adult dog or cat is defined as being three months of age or older.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person keeping or harboring dogs or other animals to fail to keep the premises where such dogs or other animals are kept free from offensive odors and contagious disease to the extent that the odors or contagious diseases are disturbing or a health threat to any person residing within reasonable proximity of the premises.
(D) It shall be unlawful to allow premises where such dogs or other animals are kept to become unclean and a threat to the public health by failing to diligently and systematically remove all animal waste from the premises.
(E) No animal or fowl of any kind shall be kept confined in any place where water, shelter, ventilation and food are not sufficient and wholesome for the preservation of their health, safe condition and wholesomeness.
(F) It shall be illegal for any person to keep or maintain within the limits of this city any swine, goats, sheep or poultry under conditions which are unsanitary, odorous or which constitute a nuisance, either public or private.
(G) No animals in the equine, bovine, ratite, procine, or ovine families shall be kept or maintained within the limits of this city in concentration of more than one head per acre.
(Ord. 14-09, passed 10-12-2009) Penalty, see § 90.99