<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 14-12. - Mistreatment of animals prohibited.</div>
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               It shall be unlawful for any person to subject or cause to be subjected any animal
               to cruel treatment or deprive or cause to be deprived any domestic animal of adequate
               food, water, and necessary medical attention. Adequate shelter, protection from the
               weather, or humane, clean conditions shall be provided for dogs and cats.
               
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                  (1)
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                  <span class="ital">Adequate food and water.</span> No person owning or responsible for any domestic animal may fail to supply the animal
                  with adequate food and water defined in <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH14AN_ARTIINGE_S14-1DE" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">section 14-1</a> of this article.
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                  (2)
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                  <span class="ital">Necessary medical attention.</span> No person owning or responsible for any domestic animal shall fail to supply the
                  animal with necessary medical attention when the animal suffers from illness, injury,
                  or disease.
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                  (3)
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                  <span class="ital">Adequate shelter, protection from the weather and humanely clean conditions.</span> No persons owning or responsible for any dog or cat shall fail to provide the animal
                  with adequate shelter in humanely clean conditions as those terms are defined in <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH14AN_ARTIINGE_S14-1DE" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">section 14-1</a> of this article.
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                  a.
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                  <span class="ital">When confinement prohibited.</span> No animal may be confined in a building, enclosure, car, boat, vehicle or vessel
                  of any kind when extreme heat or cold will be harmful to its health.
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                  b.
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                  <span class="ital">Prohibition against tethering of dogs.</span> It shall be unlawful to tether an unattended dog outdoors, including hunting dogs.
                  When on the property of the dog owner, dogs may run loose when attended by a responsible
                  person who can control the dogs either by voice commands or by a leash. When on the
                  property of the dog owner, dogs may run unattended if kept in a penned area, secured
                  enclosure or an area surrounded by an effectively operating electronic fence. The
                  prohibition regarding when or where dogs may run loose shall not apply to hunting
                  dogs when they are being used for lawful hunting purposes. For the first six months
                  following the effective date of this subsection, only warning citations shall be issued
                  for violations.
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                  (4)
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                  <span class="ital">Properly fitted collars required.</span> An owner/keeper of a dog or cat shall not permit injury or inflict pain upon such
                  animal from an improperly fitting or embedded collar.
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               (Ord. of 1-7-02; Res. of 12-2-19(1), Â§Â§ 5â€”7)
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