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It is unlawful for the owner of any animal, either willfully or by failure to exercise due care, to cause, allow, or permit any one or more of the following:

1. any domesticated animal entering upon private or public property, so as to damage or destroy any real or personal property, including livestock, thereon;

2. any domesticated animal chasing, running after or jumping at vehicles using the public streets and alleys;

3. any domesticated animal snapping, growling, snarling or jumping at or upon or otherwise threaten persons lawfully using public sidewalks, streets, alleys or other public ways.

4. dogs running in packs;

5. any animal dumping garbage or strewing trash on public or private property;

6. any animal which entering any place where food is prepared, served, stored or sold to the public; provided, that this subsection shall not apply to any service animal in a food establishment in conformity with RCW 49.60.218 or to a duly authorized law enforcement officer or security guard using dogs in performance of their duties;

7. staking, confining or keeping any animal on public property without prior consent of the applicable agency;

8. keeping, harboring or maintaining any animal known to have contagious disease, unless under the treatment of a licensed veterinarian or being kept for medical research;

9. keeping, harboring or maintaining any animal on public property not under the control of the owner or other competent person and without consent of the applicable agency;

10. the ownership, harboring, or keeping of any species of animals regulated by the Washington State Department of Health pursuant to Chapter 246-100 WAC, together with amendments thereto, for protection of the public from communicable diseases except as lawfully authorized;

11. the taking from the wild, or the holding in captivity, or the having in one’s possession, or the exportation from or importation into the county of any species designated in Chapter 232-12 WAC, together with amendments thereto, except as lawfully authorized;

12. any domesticated animal causing injury or harm to any person while such animal is in or on a public place or lawfully in or on a private place including the property of the owner of such animal;

13. any unconfined female animal being in estrus when accessible to other animals, except those animals used for controlled and planned breeding;

14. interfering with, obstructing, torturing, beating, kicking, striking, mutilating, disabling, shooting, poisoning, killing or in any other way abusing or harassing any police dog;

15. harassing a police dog while said police dog is confined in its quarters, an automobile, kennel fenced area, training area, or while it is under control of a dog handler;

16. interfering with a police dog or dog handler while said police dog or dog handler is engaged in lawful police activities; or

17. any animal violating or involved in the violating of any provision of this Chapter 8.24 VMC. (Ord. M-4043 §3, 2013)