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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 or human.


  • 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.







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