§ 4-27. Nuisances.

(a)

No owner shall fail to exercise proper care and control of his/her animals and the premises where the animals are kept to prevent them from becoming a public nuisance.

(b)

All of the following conditions, situations or occurrences are hereby declared to be a public nuisance and a failure of the owner to exercise proper care and control of his/her animal or the premises where the animal is, or has been, kept:

(1)

Any animal which turns over garbage containers or scatters garbage or which otherwise damages private or public property.

(2)

Any animal running at large.

(3)

Any animal which barks, whines or howls in an excessive, continuous or untimely fashion.

(4)

Any building, room, cage, yard, run or other place or facility where animals are kept or harbored, except a commercial animal establishment, which is not maintained in a clean and sanitary condition so as to prevent obnoxious odors, the attraction, breeding or potential breeding of flies, the attraction, harboring or breeding of rodents or the creation of any other public health nuisances.

(Ord. No. 2006-38, § 1, 11-21-06)