[Adopted 8-16-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-6]
Duty of owner or person in charge. No person
owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog shall cause, suffer
or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance
on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area,
park or any place where people congregate or walk, or upon any public
property whatsoever, or upon any private property without the permission
of the owner of said property, except under the following conditions:
A.Â
The person who owns, harbors, keeps or is in charge
of such dog shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such dog
by any sanitary method approved by the local health authority.
B.Â
The feces removed from the aforementioned designated
area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping
or in charge of any dog, in a sanitary manner approved by the local
health authority.
C.Â
The provisions of this section shall not apply to
a guide dog accompanying any blind person.
Any person who violates or fails to comply with
the above provisions shall be subject to a maximum fine of $1,000,
imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or a period of community
service not exceeding 90 days, or all of the above, in the discretion
of the Court.
