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<br />Ordinance No. 2004-53
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<br />(c) On complaint of any person or police officer that an animal, harbored or
<br />kept in the City, has disturbed the peace and quiet, endangered the repose or health of any
<br />person or persons, or damaged property in any one of the manners specified above,
<br />written notice therefor by the Animal Warden shatl be given to the person harboring or
<br />keeping such animal. Failure to abate the nuisance complained of shall subject the
<br />person to the penalty provided for in this section.
<br />(d) In the case of defecation, wherein the owner or person in charge or control
<br />of such animal, remaves all feces deposited by such animal and disposes of the same in a
<br />sanitary manner, such nuisance shall be considered abated.
<br />(e) If upon complaint by the person or police offcer as provided in paragraph
<br />(c) above, the owner, harborer or keeper of the animal cannot be immediately determmed,
<br />the Animal Warden may seize and impound the animal. Thereafter, the ammal shall be
<br />kept and disposed of as provided for in Section 505.02.
<br />( fl Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
<br />(Ord. 98-55. Passed 6-2-98.)
<br />Is hereby amended and shall henceforth read as follows:
<br />505.08 NCTISANCE CONDITIONS PROHIBTTED.
<br />(a) No person shall keep or hazbor any animal in the City so as to permit or
<br />suffer to be permitted the commission or evidence of a nuisance as heremafter defined.
<br />(b) Any animal which disturbs the peace and quiet, endangers the repose or
<br />health of any person or persons, or causes property damage, in any one of the following
<br />manners is hereby declared to be a nuisance:
<br />(1) By frequently or habitually making loud and
<br />offensive noises, including, but not limited to barking, howling,
<br />hissing, crying, screaming, screeching, or yelping;
<br />(2) By frequently or habitually scratching or digging in,
<br />or urinating or defecating upon, any lawn, tree, shrub, plant,
<br />building or any other property, public or pnvate, other than the
<br />property of the owner or person in charge or control of such
<br />animal, thereby causing damage to said Iawn, tree, shrub, plant or
<br />building; or
<br />(3) On any occasion, when the animal is found on the
<br />property of another or upon public property, and is, in an
<br />aggressive manner, threatening to attack, or has attacked, any
<br />human being.
<br />(4) By the accumulation of animal waste so as to
<br />create nogious or offensive odors or unsanitary conditions that
<br />cause a risk to the health, safety or public welfare.
<br />(c) On complaint of any person or police officer that an animal, harbored or
<br />kept in the City, has disturbed the peace and quiet, endangered the repose or health of any
<br />person or persons, or damaged property in any one of the manners specified above,
<br />written notice therefor by the Animal Warden shall be given to the person harboring or
<br />keeping such animal. Failure to abate the nuisance complained of shall subject the
<br />person to the penalty provided for in this section.
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