§ 462.303. Animals at-large prohibited.

(a)

No owner or person having temporary custody of any animal(s) shall permit the animal(s) or fail to restrain the animal(s) from being at-large, except a dog shall be considered exempt from these provisions if:

(1)

The dog is engaged in the performance of duties while under the supervision and control of law enforcement officials performing law enforcement work.

(2)

The dog is engaged in any legal hunt or training procedure, including training or exhibiting in legal sports such as obedience trials, conformation shows, field trials, schutzhund, hunting/retrieving trials, and herding trials; however, such dogs at all other times and in all other respects shall be subject to this Chapter.

(3)

The dog is in a City-designated or legally established, with proper certificate of use, private "off-leash" dog park and is under the supervision of the owner or a responsible person.

(b)

A violation of this Section, shall subject the violator to a civil fine of not less than the amount designated in Chapter 462, Part 18. Each separate incident is considered a separate violation. The animal control officer may cite the owner or custodian of such animal(s) for violation a of such Section when either the animal control officer has received, from two or more unrelated adult witnesses from different residences, or from one adult witness with a recorded video showing the alleged violation, a sworn affidavit attesting to the committing of a nuisance pursuant to this Section, or the citing animal control officer has directly observed the commission of such a nuisance.

(Ord. 2004-259-E, § 1; Ord. 2010-527-E, § 4; Ord. 2016-405-E , § 1)