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No person in a park or open space shall:

(1) Allow a dog or other domestic animal to be off-leash in parks or open space except in designated off-leash areas. Nothing herein shall be construed as permitting the running of dogs at large.

(2) City employees and police officers may require a person in charge of an animal to undertake any measure including the removal of the animal from the park area, if necessary, to prevent interference by the animal with the safety, comfort, or well-being of park visitors or resources.

(3) No animal may be hitched to a tree or shrub in a manner that endangers the tree or shrub.

(4) Owners of dogs or other animals shall be responsible for clean-up and removal of all waste deposited in the parks by their animals.

(5) No person shall harass, injure or otherwise harm or remove any existing wildlife from any park or park facility.

(6) No person shall deposit, leave or otherwise abandon any animal either domestic or wild within park boundaries.

(7) Hunt, molest, harm, frighten, kill, trap, chase, tease, shoot, or throw missiles at any animal, reptile, or bird. Nor shall a person remove or have in their possession the young of any wild animal or the eggs, nest, or young of any reptile or bird. Nor shall a person collect, remove, have in their possession, give away, sell, offer to sell or buy or offer to buy or accept as a gift any specimen alive or dead of any of the group of tree snails. Exception to the foregoing is made in the case of snakes which are known to be deadly poisonous which may be killed on sight.

(8) Give, offer, or attempt to give or offer any animal or bird tobacco, alcohol, or other known noxious substances. (Ord. 169 Exh. A, passed 2-11-2020)