Code of Ordinance
› Chapter 14 — ANIMALS › Article II — ANIMALS › Division 3 — VICIOUS OR RABID ANIMALS
Section 14.81
Vicious or destructive animals.
Adopted August 30, 2015
- (a) Any person who owns, harbors, keeps or has charge of any fowl or animal which attacks, bites, scratches, or otherwise physically injures human beings or other animals without adequate provocation, or which, because of temperament or training, has a known propensity to attack, bite, scratch, or otherwise physically injure human beings or other animals:
- (1) Shall confine such animal to a building or secure enclosure; and
- (2) Shall, whenever such animal is off the premises on which it is kept, keep such animal securely muzzled and restrained with a chain having a minimum tensile strength of twice the animal's body weight and not more than three
- (3) feet in length, or otherwise securely caged.
- (b) No person shall permit or allow, by failure to exercise due control, any animal to bite or attack, or threaten to bite or attack, a person or domestic animal except in the defense of itself or in defense of a person during the commission of a crime by another.