[Amended 10-18-2017 by Ord. No. 17-02]
There shall be no more than six cats or dogs kept or harbored
in any household in the City of Englewood. If an owner wishes to have
more than six cats or dogs in his/her home, such owner shall make
an application to the Health Officer, in writing, on an application
form prescribed by the Board of Health. The Health Officer shall act
upon such application based upon the standards set forth in this article
within 30 days of the date on the application. The owner shall have
the right to appeal an adverse action to the Board of Health. The
appeal should be filed with the Board of Health within 10 days of
the adverse action and shall be on an appeal form prescribed by the
Board of Health.
Any person keeping, owning or otherwise harboring more than
one animal shall maintain them in such a way that they do not constitute
a public health hazard or a nuisance to others. If any home or place
where such animal is kept is deemed a health hazard or a nuisance
by the Health Officer, the owner or person keeping the animal shall
be requested to remove the hazard or abate the nuisance within five
days' written notice by the Health Officer.
A.
For the purpose of this section, unless otherwise limited, the owner
is ultimately responsible for the behavior of the animal regardless
of whether the owner or another member of the owner's household
or a household visitor permitted the animal to engage in the behavior
that is the subject of the violation.
B.
It is unlawful for any person to commit any of the following:
(1)
Permit an animal to be at large.
(2)
Permit an animal to trespass upon property of another.
(3)
Permit any animal unreasonably to cause annoyance, alarm or noise
disturbance to any person or neighborhood by barking, whining, screeching,
howling, braying or other like sounds which may be heard beyond the
boundary of the owner's or keeper's property under conditions
wherein the animal sounds are shown to have occurred either as repeated
episodes of continuous noise lasting for a minimum period of 10 minutes
or repeated episodes of intermittent noises lasting for a minimum
period of 30 minutes. It shall be an affirmative defense under this
subsection that the animal was intentionally provoked by a party other
than the owner to make such noise.
(4)
Permit any animal to leave the confines of any officially prescribed
quarantine area.
C.
Cages, rooms, hard-surfaced pens, runs and food and watering receptacles
shall be sanitized daily to prevent disease.
D.
Excrement shall be removed from primary enclosures a minimum of every
24 hours, or more often if necessary as to prevent contamination,
reduce disease hazards and minimize odors.
No hutch, pen, coop or enclosure shall be less than 50 feet
from any dwelling nor less than 10 feet from all adjoining property
lines.
No person shall keep any small animals affected with skin mange,
coccidiosis, parasitic worms or other diseases contagious to other
animals or human beings, and any such animal so affected shall immediately
be destroyed and the carcass cremated forthwith. The provisions of
this article shall not apply to any small animal under regular professional
treatment by a duly licensed veterinarian, but all said provisions
shall fully apply when such treatment shall be discontinued without
a full cure having been effected or when such veterinarian shall certify
that, in his opinion, such cure cannot be effected. Any hutch, pen,
coop or enclosure wherein such affected animal is found and all adjoining
hutches, pens, coops or enclosures shall be destroyed or thoroughly
disinfected in an approved fashion.
No person shall allow any small animal, as the terms are herein
defined, to run at large in Englewood, but the same shall, at all
times, be confined to the premises in a suitable hutch, pen, coop
or enclosure.
