44-04 Amend Chapter 505 Animals & Fowl

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Any dog in training to become a guide, leader, listener or support dog shall be covered by a liability insurance policy provided by the nonprofit special agency engaged in such work protecting members of the pUblic against personal injury or property damage caused by the dog. (b) No person shall d¡¡prive a blind, deaf or mobility impaired person of any of the ¡ldvantages, facilities or privileges provided in subsection (a) hereof, nor charge the blind, deaf or mobility impaired person a fee or charge for the dog. (c) As used in this section, "instituti.ons of education" means: (1) Any state university or college, as defined in Ohio R.C. 3345.32; (2) Any private college or university that holds a certificate of authorization issued by the Ohio Board of Regents pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1713; (3) Any elementary or secondary school operated by a board of education; (4) Any chartered or nonchartered nonpublic elementary or secondary school; (5) Any school issued a certificate of registration by the State Board of Proprietary School Registration. (3) (d) degree. 505.15 DOG EXCREMENT REMOVAL. (a) No person shall allow a dog Ulider his or her control to be upon public property or upon the property of another, absent the consent of the owner or occupant of tHe property, without some device designed or intended for the removal or containment of such dog's excrement; nor shall any person fail to remove any excr~ment deposited by any dog under his or her control. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth (b) This section shall not apply to guide dogs under the control of a blind perspn. , (C) Whoever violates any provision ofthis section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and for each subsequent offense a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. 505.16 ANIMAL FIGHTS. (a) No person shall knowingly engage in or be employed at cockfighting, bearbaiting or pitting an animal against another. No person shall receive money fur the admissipn of another to a place kept for such purpose. No person shall use, train or posseSs any animal for seizing, detaining or maltreating a domestic animal. Any person who' knowingly purchases a ticket of admission to sucli place, or is present thereat, or witnesses such spectacle, is an aider and abettor. (b) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. 505.17 VICIOUS DÒGS. (REPEALED) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This section was repealed by Ordinance 36-88, passed June 6, 1988. See Chapter 506.) 505.18 CERTAIN ANIMALS PROHIBITED. (a) No person shall knowingly keep, maintain or have in his possession or under his control within the City any dangerous or carnivorous wild animal or reptile, any vicious or dangerous domesticated animal, or any other animal or reptile, or wild, vicious or dangerous propensities, except to the extent that an exemption may be applicable pursuant to subsections (c) or (d) hereof. (b) For the purposes of this section, there shall be an irrebuttable presumption, that, when kept or maintained within the City, the animals listed below are Considered dangerous animals to which the prohibition of subsection (a) hereof, in the absence. of an exemption pursuant to subsections (c) or (d) hereof, applies: (1) All crotalid, elapid and venomous colubroið snakes; , (2) Apes; Chimpanzees (Pan); gibbons (hylobates); gorillas (Gorilla); orangutans (Pongo); and siamangs (Symphalangus); (3~ B9boons (pap. 01, Manrillus); (4 Bears (Ursidae); (5 Bison (Bison); (6 Cheetahs (Aclnonyx jubatus);