(A) It shall be unlawful for any animal owner/keeper or other person to fail to comply with the state laws relating to the control, care, and custody of animals.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to abuse, molest, maim, disfigure, torture, torment; to deprive of necessary sustenance, adequate food, water, and shelter; to cruelly beat, mutilate, kill, wound, injure, poison, abandon, or subject to conditions detrimental to its health or general welfare any animal; or to cause or procure such action.
(C) The words TORTURE and TORMENT shall be held to include every act, omission, or neglect whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted; but such terms shall not be construed to prohibit lawful shooting of birds, deer, and other game for human food; not to prohibit an animal’s owner, a veterinarian, the Health Director, or the Animal Control Department from destroying dangerous or injured animals in a humane manner, nor to prohibit the lawful use of animals in scientific research.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person knowing and intentionally to harbor, feed, or keep in possession by confinement or otherwise, any animal which does not belong to him or her, without the permission of the owner, unless he or she has within 72 hours from the time such animal came into his or her possession, notified the county’s Animal Control Department.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person to confine an animal in a vehicle under conditions that are likely to cause suffering, injury, or death to the animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or under other endangering conditions.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any owner or keeper to abandon or forsake any animal within the county.
(Ord. passed 6-2-2018) Penalty, see § 90.999