§ 6.04.090. Regulations regarding animals and livestock

It is unlawful to violate any of the following conditions in or on any land within the corporate limits of the city:

A. Cruelty to Animals. No person shall cruelly or immoderately beat, torture, or injure any animal nor underfeed, overburden or abandon any animal.

B. Fowl and Other Livestock. No person shall keep within the city any ducks, geese, chickens, or other domesticated fowl, or any cows, goats, sheep, hogs, pigs, or other livestock except such livestock or poultry as is kept in yards or pens of the railway company for shipping purposes or kept in pens, houses or yards of the stockyards, packing houses, or butcher shops, for the purpose of immediate shipment or slaughter, and except such livestock as is necessary on rodeo grounds at the time of a scheduled rodeo for public entertainment, or livestock as is necessary for roping events, or at the time an animal is scheduled to participate in a public parade.

C. Horses. No person shall keep within the city any horses except when such horse or horses shall be kept at least seventy-five (75) feet from any residential structure.

D. Pigeons. No person owning or having in his or her charge, control or possession any pigeons shall suffer, allow or permit the same to roam or fly at large within the city.

E. Bees. No person shall keep any bees within the city.

F. Maintenance of Stables and Other Places Where Animals Kept. No person shall cause or allow any stable or place where any animal is kept, to become unclean, or unwholesome.

G. Horses Prohibited in Parks and Parkways. No person shall lead, drive or ride any horse upon any lawn, flower bed, sidewalk or any other area in any city park or upon any parkway.

H. Impoundment. Any livestock or animals that are in the city illegally may be impounded by an officer of the police department, and the owner, or person in charge of the livestock or animals, shall be entitled to possession of same after payment of an impoundment fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per animal or unit of livestock so impounded, plus all costs, expenses, fines, and charges for and caring for same. Any animal impounded under this section and not reclaimed by its owner within three days may be humanely destroyed by the officer of the police department or sold. The police officer may destroy any sick or injured animal which has been impounded without holding it for three days, if its condition is such as to make its earlier destruction necessary or desirable.

(Ord. 85-7 § 1: prior code § VII-59-1)