Amending Chapter 5 in its Entirety Replacing it With A New Chapter 5 Entitled Responsible Animal and Pet Ownership Care and Control Regulations

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Substitute Bill No. 17 -14 Responsible Animal and Pet Ownership Care and Control Regulation Ordinance Page 25 Sec. 5 -25 Animal Fights and Fighting Contests Prohibited .28 (a) No person shall permit or conduct any dogfight, cockfight, or other combat between animals or between animals and humans. N. (c) (b,) No person shall attend an animal fighting contest. (d) Lc) No person shall sell, purchase, own, harbor, give away, barter, breed, or possess any animal for animal fighting. (e) fd) No person shall permit anyone to use any building, shed, room, yard, ground, premises, vehicle or property, whether enclosed or not for the purpose of animal fighting. (f) U No person shall aid, abet, assist, act as judge or referee, bet or wager money or other valuable consideration on the outcome of, be at, attend, or in any way engage in the furtherance of, an exhibition of animal fighting. Sec. 5 -26 Prohibited Animal Events. No person or group of persons or any organization, whether for pay or other compensation or for free promotional purpose, shall conduct or allow any event involving contests between animals or persons using animals in any form or manner that threatens public safety or the safety, well- being, and comfort of the animals involved. Sec. 5 -27 Poisonous Bait Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, in any of the streets, alleys, parks, commons, yards, or other places, whether public or private, so that it shall be likely to be eaten by any animal; provided, that it shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on his own property common rat or mouse poison, unmixed or mixed only with vegetable substances, or substances for the eradication of termites or similar insects. 28 Indiana Code § 35- 46 -3 -8 through Indiana Code § 35- 46 -3 -10 set forth the Indiana state law provisions addressing animal fighting contests which new regulations taking effect on July 1, 2014.