[Adopted 9-12-1972 by Ord. No. 116-1972; amended in its entirety 7-24-1990 by Ord. No. 35-1990]
In the interest of public health, safety and
welfare, the City enacts this article to provide for the control of
certain animals within the City of Cohoes.
[Added 3-22-2005 by Ord. No. 6-2005]
It shall be unlawful within the City of Cohoes
to feed any animal, wild or domestic, in any public place, including
but not limited to public parks, ponds, streets, lots, sidewalks,
or alleys.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons,
firm or corporation owning, possessing, harboring or having the right
to control farm animals, wild animals, reptiles, wild and domestic,
or primates, wild and domestic, to allow said animals to run at large
on any highway, street, public place or private property of others.
An animal wandering, roving or rambling at will, unrestrained, will
be considered running at large.
[Added 7-24-2007 by Ord. No. 11-2007]
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons,
firm or corporation owning or possessing a reptile to openly display
or allow to be visible said reptile in any public place or way, including
but not limited to, streets, sidewalks, alleys, parks, municipal buildings
and parking lots. It shall be lawful to transport a reptile in the
public way if said reptile is fully contained in a closed cage with
sufficient covering material so that the reptile is not visible.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons,
firm or corporation owing, possessing, harboring or having the right
to control farm animals, wild animals, reptiles, wild or domestic,
to bring, permit to be brought or allow to run at large said animals
in City parks, on Cayuga Plaza grounds or in Canal Square without
first obtaining a license to do so from the Commissioner of Public
Safety or his designee. The procedure for obtaining a license to bring
or to be brought said animals into City parks, on Cayuga Plaza grounds
or in Canal Square shall be determined by the Commissioner of Public
Safety.
A fee of $50 will be charged for the filing
of an application for a license to bring or permit to be brought any
farm animals, reptiles, wild or domestic, or primates, wild or domestic,
into City parks, on Cayuga Plaza grounds or in Canal Square. Such
application fee shall be nonrefundable, regardless of whether the
application for such license is approved or disapproved by the Commissioner
of Public Safety or his designee. The Commissioner of Public Safety
or his designee may waive the application fee if he determines that
to do so would be in the public's best interest.
Any person, persons, firm or corporation owning
or leasing land adjoining a cemetery located within the City of Cohoes
and who owns, possesses, harbors, has the right to control or allows
farm animals to graze in or pasture on said adjoining lands must erect
and maintain a fence or fences sufficient to restrain such animals
from entering into the cemetery or cemeteries adjoining said lands.
[Amended 12-10-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996]
Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating
any section of this article shall, upon conviction, be punishable
by a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment for not more than
15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment. Each animal in violation
of this article and each day of occurrence shall be deemed a separate
offense.
