Part 5

Animals Running at Large[Adopted by Ord. 1; suspended by Ord. 92-10]

No person owning or having charge, care, custody or control of any dog shall cause, permit or allow the same to be or to run at large upon any highway, street, lane, alley, court or other public place, or upon any private property or premises other that those of the person owning or having charge, care, custody or control of such dog, in the City of Lakewood, unless such dog be restrained by a substantial chain or leash not exceeding six (6) feet in length and is in the charge, care, custody or control of a competent person.

The provisions of this article do not prohibit permitting or allowing dogs to run at large on the premises of the owner or person having charge, care, custody or control of such dogs, or prohibit permitting or allowing dogs other than unspayed female dogs during the copulative season to run at large on any ranch or undeveloped property, when within a radius of five hundred (500) feet therefrom there shall be situated not to exceed five residential or commercial establishments other than the residence of the person owning or having charge, care, custody or control of such dogs.

Every person owning or having charge, care, custody or control of any pig, hog, cow, bull, steer, horse, mule, jack, jenny, hinny, sheep, or other stock, who wilfully or knowingly permits the same to run at large in or upon any cultivated or improved land owned by any person, other than the owner of such animal, unless the consent of the owner of such land is first obtained, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

This chapter does not prohibit the leading, driving or conducting of animals under adequate supervision along a public highway.

Every person owning or operating any cat kennel shall keep all cats therein under proper confinement on the premises and shall not cause, permit or allow such cats to be or to run at large.

Every person owning any wild animals, or operating any wild animals establishment, shall keep all animals under proper confinement on the premises and shall not cause, permit, or allow such animals to be or to run at large, or maintain any such animal upon any private property or within the premises of any such person in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of any person lawfully entering such premises.

If the Director finds that it is necessary to permit any animal, wild or domestic, to run at large in order to accomplish any legitimate purpose in the use of such animal and that the animal will be so supervised and guarded that it will not leave the premises where used and will not endanger in any way the public health, safety or general welfare of any person, he may permit such animal to run at large under such conditions as the Director finds necessary or expedient to protect the safety of the public.

Such permit may be for one occasion or for a period of time or until revoked. It may include one or more animal or may permit any animal under the control of the permittee to run at large as above provided.

Such permit may be revoked for the reasons and pursuant to the procedures provided for by this Chapter for the revocation of licenses.

This section shall not authorize the Director to issue any permit to allow any animal to run at large in violation of any permit issued pursuant to the terms and provisions of any other provision of this Code.