§ 6-6. Animal noise and unsanitary conditions.

(a)

No person who owns, harbors or keeps a dog, cat or other animal shall permit such dog, cat or any other animal to give rise to noise by habitual howling, yelping, scratching, barking, meowing or otherwise that is plainly audible across property boundaries or between partitions common to two or more persons within a building that causes serious annoyance or disturbance to persons in the neighborhood.

(b)

No person who owns a dog, cat or any other animal shall allow unsanitary conditions that cause serious annoyance across property boundaries or between partitions common to two or more persons within a building or neighbors.

(c)

Animals may be given exercise walks along the public streets, sidewalks and alleyways as long as the animal is held by a leash controlled by a person of sufficient size and strength to restrain the animal. No animal may be allowed to trespass onto private property without the express permission of the property owner. If the animal deposits fecal matter, the person controlling such animal must immediately pick up and remove said animal feces and dispose of it in a covered garbage container located where the animal resides.

(Ord. No. 2010-16, § 6, 7-6-2010)