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A. No person shall keep or harbor any pigs or have any pigpens or pigsties within the city, except as follows:
1. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the harboring and keeping of pigs and use of pig pens and sties in connection with a general farming operation on tracts of farmland of the size of forty (40) acres or greater.
2. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the keeping of pigs and use of pig pens and sties within the confines of any meatpacking plant where such pigs have been brought for butchering and processing.
3. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the keeping of pigs which are housed at the Sunrise Exchange Club Petting Zoo.
B. The provisions of this section shall be subject to the provisions of this code and other ordinances of the city relating to nuisances. (Ord. 5204, 3-10-2014; amd. Ord. 5684, 1-17-2023)
A. The animal control officer, his agents or any police official shall be able to use a tranquilizer gun or any other drug to bring an animal at large under control.
B. In order to use a tranquilizer gun or other drugs, the animal must be at large and pose a threat or danger to the general public or to the city officer trying to bring the animal under control.
C. If it becomes necessary for the animal control department or the police department to use a tranquilizer gun or other drugs to bring an animal at large under control, the city shall not be held responsible for any damage done to the animal by the use of the tranquilizer gun or other drugs.
D. The owner of the animal that needs sedation to bring it under control shall pay for costs of the sedation and for the care and feeding while the animal is under control of the city or the Humane Society. (Ord. 5204, 3-10-2014; amd. Ord. 5684, 1-17-2023)
A person caring for or owning any animal that has died shall not allow the carcass to remain about his or her premises. Such carcass shall be disposed of within twenty four (24) hours after death. Animal control shall charge a pick up fee in an amount determined from time to time by resolution of the city council. (Ord. 5204, 3-10-2014; amd. Ord. 5684, 1-17-2023)
No person shall set or use any steel, claw, leghold, conibear, snare or box trap outside of any structure or building for the purpose of taking, killing, maiming, wounding, ensnaring or capturing an animal or which is injurious to persons or animals, except for the following:
A. Any trapping by a governmental unit to capture animals which are creating a public nuisance or for the protection of public or property;
B. Licensed pest and rodent control persons in protection of private property;
C. During the season allowed by the state conservation commission for taking of furbearing animals on parcels of land privately owned of forty (40) acres or more, or public land controlled by a governmental agency issuing such rights to trapping;
D. Wire cage box traps may be used to remove nuisance pests from private property; said traps must be checked every thirty (30) minutes.
E. Traps may be rented from animal control for a five (5) day period to remove nuisance pests, however, the trapper is required to transport dogs and/or cats to the Humane Society. The rental fee shall be an amount determined from time to time by resolution of the city council. Wildlife shall be transported, by the trapper, and released unharmed to an area outside Waterloo city limits .
F. A private property owner on his private property in order to control small rodents, such as gophers, moles and other similar animals. (Ord. 5204, 3-10-2014; amd. Ord. 5684, 1-17-2023)
A. No theatrical exhibit, circus, animal act or show shall be held in which animals or fowl are encouraged or made to perform through the use of chemical, electrical or mechanical means or devices. If any person shall torture, torment, mutilate, cruelly beat or cruelly kill any animal or fowl, or unnecessarily fail to provide the same with adequate feed and water, shelter or protection from the weather, or cruelly abandon the same, or shall commit any other act of omission by which unjustifiable pain, distress, suffering or death is caused or permitted to any animal or fowl, whether the acts or omissions herein contemplated be committed either maliciously, willfully or negligently, and if any person shall knowingly permit such act or omission or shall cause or procure the same to be done, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
B. When the temperature falls below thirty degrees Fahrenheit (30°F), with wind chill factor applied, or when the heat index is at least eighty-five degrees (85°), no animal may be restrained outdoors by tethering for more than fifteen (15) minutes without access to adequate food, adequate water, and an outdoor facility that provides adequate protection from the elements. In any circumstances, a tethered animal must have access to an outdoor facility that provides adequate protection from the elements. (Ord. 5204, 3-10-2014; amd. Ord. 5684, 1-17-2023)
A. Artificially Colored Animals; Sale: No chick, duckling, gosling or rabbit that has been dyed or otherwise colored artificially may be sold or offered for sale, raffled, offered or given as a prize, premium or advertising device, or displayed in any store, shop, carnival or other public place.
B. Use As Advertising Devices:
1. Chicks, ducklings and goslings, younger than four (4) weeks of age may not be sold or offered for sale, raffled or offered or given as a prize, premium or advertising device, in quantity of less than twelve (12) birds to an individual person unless sold by a person engaged in the business of selling chicks, ducklings and goslings for agricultural or wildlife purposes.
2. Stores, shops, vendors and others displaying chicks, ducklings or goslings to the public, shall provide and operate brooders or other heating devices that may be necessary to maintain the chicks, ducklings or goslings in good health, and shall keep adequate food and adequate water available to the birds at all times. (Ord. 5204, 3-10-2014; amd. Ord. 5684, 1-17-2023)
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