(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or have in his or her possession or under his or her control within the City any poisonous reptile or any other dangerous or carnivorous wild animal or reptile, any vicious or dangerous domesticated animal or any other animal or reptile of wild, vicious or dangerous propensities.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or have in his or her possession or under his or her control within the City any of the following animals:
(1) All poisonous animals including rear-fang snakes;
(2) Apes: Chimpanzees (Pan); gibbons (Hylobates); gorillas (Gorilla); orangutans (Pongo); and siamangs (Symphalangus);
(3) Baboons (Papoi, Mandrillus);
(4) Bears (Ursidae);
(5) Bison (Bison);
(6) Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus);
(7) Constrictor snakes, six feet in length or more;
(8) Coyotes (Canis latrans);
(9) Crocodilians (Crocodilia), 30 inches in length or more;
(10) Deer (Cervidae); includes all members of the deer family, for example, white-tailed deer, elk, antelope and moose;
(11) Elephants (Elephas and Loxodonta);
(12) Game cocks and other fighting birds;
(13) Hippopotami (Hippopotamidae);
(14) Hyenas (Hyaenidae);
(15) Jaguars (Panthera onca);
(16) Leopards (Panthera pardus);
(17) Lions (Panthera leo);
(18) Lynxes (Lynx);
(19) Monkeys, old world (Cercopithecidae);
(20) Ostriches (Struthio);
(21) Piranha fish (Characidae);
(22) Pumas (Felis concolor); also known as cougars, mountain lions and panthers;
(23) Rhinoceroses (Rhinocero tidae);
(24) Sharks (class Chondrichthyes);
(25) Snow leopards (Panthera uncia);
(26) Spiders (Arachnida);
(27) Swine (Suidae), except pot-bellied pigs;
(28) Tigers (Panthera tigris); and
(29) Wolves (Canis lupus).
(c) The provisions of divisions (a) and (b) shall not apply to zoological gardens and circuses if:
(1) Their location conforms to the provisions of the City's Land Development Code;
(2) All animals and animals' quarters are kept in a clean and sanitary condition and so maintained as to eliminate objectionable odors;
(3) Animals are kept in quarters so constructed as to prevent their escape; and
(4) No person lives or resides within one hundred feet (100') of the quarters in which the animals are kept.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on the first offense. Each subsequent offense is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 78-36. Passed 07/27/78; Ord. 06-34. Passed 05/25/06)