Sec. 10-152. - Harboring or keeping of noisy or vicious animals.

It shall be unlawful to keep or harbor any animal, whether licensed or not, whenever it shall be affirmed in writing and signed by two or more residents of separate dwellings of this town or by two or more persons regularly employed in the neighborhood, or such complaint has been affirmed in writing and signed by one or more residents of this town and the complaint has been verified by the animal control officer, that any animal is a habitual nuisance by reason of repeated howling or barking or making other noise, or being vicious or by its acting potentially vicious. Such keeping or harboring is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.

(Code 1982, § 4-21(a); Code 2003, § 10-152; Ord. of 6-10-1996, § 4-21(a))