Chapter 6.24
ANIMAL CARE

Sections:

6.24.010    Cruel acts prohibited.

6.24.010 Cruel acts prohibited.

It is unlawful for the owners or persons having custody of any animal to permit, either wilfully or through failure to exercise due care or control, any cruel acts upon such animal. Cruel acts are defined as follows:

A.    To place, leave or expose, in any place accessible to animals, any poisonous substance;

B.    To have, keep or harbor any animal which is infected with any dangerous or incurable or painfully crippling conditions, except as hereinafter provided. All such diseased or crippled animals with an incurable ailment taken into custody of the city shall be transferred to the contracted pounding facility for impoundment. This section shall not apply to animals within veterinary hospitals or under the care of a veterinarian;

C.    To fail, refuse or neglect to provide any animal in their charge or custody as owner or otherwise, with food, drink, shade or weatherproof housing facilities, or to carry any animal in or upon any vehicle in a cruel or inhumane manner;

D.    To wilfully, or maliciously kill, maim, disfigure, tease, torture, beat with a stick, chain, club, or other object, mutilate, burn, scald with any substance, drive over or otherwise cruelly set upon any animal, except that a reasonable force may be employed to drive off vicious or trespassing animals;

E.    To hobble livestock or other animals by means of chains which are composed of tempered or other permanent wire links;

F.    To drive or work any animal in a cruel manner when such animal is unfit for such work;

G.    To promote, stage, hold, manage, conduct, carry on, or attend any game, exhibition, contest, or fight in which one or more animals are engaged for the purpose of injuring, killing, maiming, or destroying themselves or any other animal or person;

H.    No person or business shall give away any live vertebrate animal as a prize for, or an inducement to enter, any contest, game or other competition, or as an inducement to enter a place of amusement or offer such vertebrate as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade;

I.    To leave an animal without proper and adequate food, water, shelter, care and attention pursuant to Section 597F of the Penal Code of the state;

J.    To keep the stable, barn, stall, pen, coop, building, or place in which any animal, fowl or bird is kept in an unclean or unsanitary condition. (Ord. 98-15 § 9, 1998; Ord. 94-8 § 2 (part), 1994; Ord. 670 (part), 1984)