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* Humane Laws
  • It is unlawful for any person to abandon an animal within the city limits. The director may order the seizure and impoundment of any abandoned animal.
  • Any person, who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal, shall at once report the accident to the police department.
  • No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same may be attractive to any warm-blooded animal.
  • The use of any type of cyanide pellet traps or any similar type of trap containing a chemical noxious to man is hereby prohibited within the corporate limits of the city.
  • No person shall set up or allow to be set up on his property steel jaw traps, spring traps with teeth or perforated edges on the holding mechanism, or any type of trap with a holding mechanism designated in such a fashion as to reasonably ensure the cutting, slicing, tearing or otherwise traumatizing of the entrapped prey, for the purpose of ensnaring domestic or wild animals within the City limits. For a look at all of the city’s animal laws, please visit our Chapter 5 page.







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