Code of Ordinances

(A) Bark­ing Dog.  It shall be unlaw­ful for any per­son to own, keep, have in his pos­ses­sion or har­bor any dog which, by fre­quent whin­ing, yelp­ing, bark­ing, howl­ing or oth­er exces­sive noise which can be heard beyond the bound­ary or the premis­es of real prop­er­ty belong­ing to such per­son with such vol­ume and fre­quen­cy as to be a pub­lic nui­sance or dis­turb the peace.

(B) Accu­mu­la­tion of Ani­mal Waste.  It shall be unlaw­ful for any per­son own­ing, keep­ing, hav­ing in his pos­ses­sion or har­bor­ing any ani­mal to allow or per­mit the unrea­son­able accu­mu­la­tion of excre­ment, urine, blood, vom­it, or oth­er ani­mal waste so as to be a pub­lic nui­sance or be dan­ger­ous to the health of human beings or animals.

(C) Removal of Excre­ment.  It shall be unlaw­ful for any per­son own­ing, keep­ing, hav­ing in his pos­ses­sion or har­bor­ing any ani­mal to allow or per­mit such ani­mal to defe­cate upon a pub­lic way, upon pub­lic prop­er­ty or upon the prop­er­ty of anoth­er, unless such per­son imme­di­ate­ly removes any excre­ment deposit­ed by such animal.

(D) Ani­mal Odors.  It shall be unlaw­ful for any per­son own­ing, keep­ing, hav­ing in his pos­ses­sion or har­bor­ing any ani­mal to allow or per­mit such ani­mal to cause any odors offen­sive to a rea­son­able per­son resid­ing in the vicin­i­ty, poten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous to health, or cre­at­ing any oth­er pub­lic nuisance.

(E) Aban­don­ment of Ani­mal.  It shall be unlaw­ful for any per­son to dump or aban­don any animal.

(F) Dan­ger­ous Dog; Leash Required.  It is unlaw­ful for any per­son to know­ing­ly or reck­less­ly per­mit any dan­ger­ous dog to leave the premis­es of its own­er when not under con­trol by leash.