A. Housing facilities for animals shall be structurally sound and shall be maintained in good repair, to protect the animals from injury, to contain the animals, and to restrict the entrance of other animals.

B. All animals shall be supplied with sufficient good and wholesome food and water as often as the feeding habits of the respective animals require.

C. All animals and all animal buildings or enclosures shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.

D. All animals shall be so maintained as to eliminate excessive and nighttime noise.

E. No animals shall be without attention more than twelve consecutive hours. Whenever an animal is left unattended at a kennel, pet shop, grooming shop or facility operated pursuant to a permit issued by the animal control officer, the telephone number of city animal control services or the name, address and telephone number of the permittee shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the front of the property.

F. Every reasonable precaution shall be used to ensure that animals are not teased, abused, mistreated, annoyed, tormented or in any manner made to suffer by any person or means.

G. No condition shall be maintained or permitted that is or could be injurious to the animals.

H. Buildings and enclosures which house animals shall be so constructed and maintained as to prevent escape of such animals. All reasonable precautions shall be taken to protect the public from the animals and the animals from the public.

I. Every animal establishment shall isolate sick animals sufficiently so as not to endanger the health of other animals. Sick animals shall at all times be isolated from the other animals.

J. Every building or enclosure wherein animals are maintained shall be constructed of material easily cleaned and shall be properly ventilated to prevent drafts and to remove odors. Heating and cooling shall be provided as required, according to the physical need of the animals, with sufficient light to allow observation of animals and sanitation.

K. Such person shall take any animal to a veterinarian for examination or treatment, if the animal control officer finds this is necessary in order to maintain the health of the animal and orders the owner or custodian to do so.

L. All animal rooms, cages, kennels, and runs shall be of sufficient size to provide adequate and proper accommodations for the animals kept therein.

M. Every violation of an applicable regulation shall be corrected within a reasonable time to be specified by the animal control officer.

N. Such person shall provide proper shelter and protection from the weather for all animals at all times.

O. Such person shall not give an animal any alcoholic beverage, unless prescribed by a veterinarian.

P. Such person shall not allow animals which are natural enemies, temperamentally unsuited, or otherwise incompatible, to be quartered together, or so near each other as to cause injury, fear or torment. If two or more animals are so trained that they can be placed together and do not attack each other or perform or attempt any hostile act to the others, such animals shall be deemed not to be natural enemies.

Q. Such person shall not allow the use of any tack, equipment, device, substance or material that is, or could be, injurious or cause unnecessary cruelty to any animal.

R. Such person shall give working animals reasonable and proper rest periods. Confined or restrained animals shall be given exercise reasonable and proper for the individual animal under the particular conditions.

S. Such person shall not work, use or rent any animal which is overheated, weakened, exhausted, sick, injured, diseased, lame or otherwise unfit.

T. Such person shall not allow any animal which the health officer has suspended from use to be worked or used until released by the animal control officer.

U. Such person shall not display animals bearing evidence of malnutrition, ill health, unhealed injury or having been kept in an unsanitary condition.

V. Such person shall not allow any animal to constitute or cause a hazard, or be a menace to the health, peace, or safety of the community. (Ord. 587, 2009; Ord. 328 §3, 1987).