(a)   No person shall maintain or harbor any horses, mules, asses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, kids, fowl, or more than two adult rabbits per household within the city limits of the City except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) herein.

(b)   It shall be unlawful to keep or harbor within the City any poisonous or nonpoisonous snake or reptile, or any wild or exotic animal except as provided in subsection (c) herein.

(c)   The City Council may permit animals incident to rodeo parades, fairs, carnivals and other public entertainment to be within the City for a limited period of time. Such permission will be authorized by a resolution of the council.

(Code 1979, 2-101; Ord. 523; Code 2024)

Three days for Ownership.  Any person owning, keeping or harboring a dog within the limits of the city for three (3) consecutive days shall be deemed the owner thereof.  Members of a household are prohibited from collectively owning more than two (2) dogs.  Provided however, that a bitch with a litter shall be considered one (1) dog until the puppies of said bitch are three months old.

(Code 1979, 2-102; Ord. 510)

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded or overworked, tortures, torments deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates, or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed, and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter or protection from the weather, upon convection thereof, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisoned not exceeding three (3) months, or both so fined and imprisoned.

(Code 1979, 2-103; Code 2024)

Every owner, possessor or person having the charge or custody of an animal, who cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle or otherwise in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind, shall be punished in the manner provided for in Section 2-103 of this article.

(Code 1979, 2-104; Code 2024)

Any person who shall be convicted of riding any horse, or other animal at a fast gait through or on any street or alley in this city so as to be likely to endanger the safety of any person or any person who shall allow such animal to travel at a gait faster than an ordinary moderate trot in any street or alley, or who shall allow any animal to be ridden upon any sidewalk in this city shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than ten dollars ($10.00)

(Code 1979, 2-105; Code 2024)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to allow chickens or other domestic fowl to run at large in the city. Any person convicted of violating this section shall be fined not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).

(Code 1979, 2-106; Code 2024)

It is made the duty of the several police officers of the city to enforce the provisions of this article, and the governing body of the city may appoint some suitable person as is a collector of dogs, whose duties is shall be to assist in the enforcement of this article, and the governing body of the city may appoint such other persons or contractors as enforcing officers under the provisions of this article.  Such appointments shall be confirmed by the governing body.  Any person authorized to enforce this article is authorized to enter upon private property for the purpose of enforcing this article.  No person shall conceal any dog or cat or otherwise interfere with the proper enforcement of this article.

(Code 1979, 2-401; Ord. 501)