(A) The city and its agents shall work cooperatively with all state and/or county agencies and other authorities in alleviating problems and nuisances created by felines running at large.
(B) The city shall establish a humane trapping program for felines running at large.
(C) The city shall apply reasonable means to determine and locate the owners of these felines. If the owner is unable to be located, said feline shall be able to be adopted by an adult individual after all associated fees by the Upshur/Lewis County Animal Shelter are paid. If said owner can not be located or no adoption occurs, the animal shall be euthanized in a humane manner.
(D) The city, through its agents, shall have the plenary power to alleviate problems and nuisances caused by stray felines and felines running at large in accordance with the practices or policies either specifically established or as specified by the state’s Bureau of Commerce’s Division of Natural Resources.
(E) The trapping, capturing, hunting, drugging, poisoning, or killing of any feline, except otherwise expressly authorized by this subchapter, shall be strictly prohibited within the corporate limits of the city. Any person charged with a violation of this subchapter shall not be permitted to assert as a defense that the means of trapping, capturing, hunting, drugging, poisoning, or killing of any feline was intended to help the city or its agents by any means.
(Ord. passed 9-5-2006)