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Responsible Animal and Pet Ownership Care and Control Regulation Ordinance
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<br />It shall be a violation of this section to be an Animal Hoarder as defined in Section 5 -2 of this
<br />Chapter.
<br />Sec. 5 -25 Animal Fights and Fighting Contests Prohibited."
<br />(a) No person shall permit or conduct any dogfight, cockfight, or other combat between
<br />animals or between animals and humans.
<br />(b) No person shall possess animal fighting paraphernalia and a dog, cock, fowl, or bird
<br />bearing a scar, wound or injury consistent with animal fighting.
<br />(c) No person shall attend an animal fighting contest.
<br />(d) No person shall sell, purchase, own, harbor, give away, barter, breed, or possess any
<br />animal for animal fighting.
<br />(e) No person shall permit anyone to use any building, shed, room, yard, ground, premises,
<br />vehicle or property, whether enclosed or not for the purpose of animal fighting.
<br />(f) No person shall aid, abet, assist, act as judge or referee, bet or wager money or other
<br />valuable consideration on the outcome of, be at, attend, or in any way engage in the
<br />furtherance of, an exhibition of animal fighting.
<br />Sec. 5 -26 Prohibited Animal Events.
<br />No person or group of persons or any organization, whether for pay or other compensation or for.
<br />free promotional purpose, shall conduct or allow any event involving contests between animals
<br />or persons using animals in any form or manner that threatens public safety or the safety, well-
<br />being, and comfort of the animals involved.
<br />Sec. 5 -27 Poisonous Bait Prohibited.
<br />It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or deposit any known poisonous substance, whether
<br />mixed with food or not, in any of the streets, alleys, parks, commons, yards, or other places,
<br />whether public or private, so that it shall be likely to be eaten by any animal; provided, that it
<br />shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on his own property common rat or mouse poison,
<br />unmixed or mixed only with vegetable substances, or substances for the eradication of termites
<br />or similar insects.
<br />Sec. 5 -28 Enticement of Another Person's Animal Prohibited.
<br />(a) It shall be unlawful for a person, not so authorized, to enter or invade the private premises
<br />of another person in the city to capture, entice, or take any animal out of the enclosure or
<br />u Indiana Code § 3546 -3 -8 through Indiana Code § 3546 -3 -10 set forth the Indiana state law provisions
<br />addressing animal fighting contests which new regulations taking effect on July 1, 2014.
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