No bones about it -- Responsible pet ownership is the law!
Cedar Falls Codes
Waterloo Codes
Cedar Falls City Codes:
Section 6-1
In addition to any police of the city, an officer of the humane society shall have police powers in the enforcement of this chapter.
Section 6-2. Cruelty to animals:
Any person who fails to supply an animal with sufficient quantity of food and water, or who fails to provide a dog or cat with adequate shelter, or who tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, mutilates, overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, beats or kills any animal by means which causes unjustified pain, distress or suffering.
Section 6-2.1. Abandonment of cats and dogs
A person shall not abandon a dog or cat, except to deliver the cat or dog to another person who will accept ownership.
Section 6-9. Dead Animals
It is unlawful for any person to leave unburied with in the city for more than six hours after death the carcass or any part thereof of any animal dying on his/her premises, or any animal of which he/she was the owner of or over which he/she had control at the time of death.
Section 6-13. Noisy animals
It is unlawful for any person keeping, owning or sheltering a cat or dog to allow or permit such animal to cause annoyance or otherwise interfere with the premises of another or by frequent and habitual howling, yelping, or otherwise cause serious annoyance or disturbance.
Section 6-41. Animals at large
At large means running or found within the city upon street, alley, sidewalk or public or private grounds. A dog or cat, properly licensed as required by this article, shall not be deemed at large if it is:
- On the premises of the owner.
- Under control of a person competent to restrain and control the dog or cat.
- Properly housed in a veterinary hospital or licensed kennel.
- Accompanied by and obedient to the commands of the owner or a competent person. Owner means any person owning, keeping, or harboring a dog, cat, horse or other animal.
Section 6-42. City License
Licenses are required for all dogs and cats over four months and older.
Section 6-46. Use of dog and cat license
The license tag shall be attached by the owner of a dog or cat to a substantial collar, and during the term of the license, the collar, with attached license, shall be at all times kept on the dog or cat for which the license is issued.
Section 6-52. Unlicensed animals
Any unlicensed dog or cat or any other animal...shall be impounded (at the Cedar Bend Humane Society) for a period of seven days.
Section 6-54. Animal Bites
It shall be the duty of the new owner of any animal which has bitten a person, or any person having knowledge of such a bite, to report this act to the health department, police or humane officer.
Section 6-55
When the health department or police or humane officer receives information that any person has been bitten by an animal, or that an animal suspected of having rabies, they shall order the owner to confine it in the manner they direct.
Section 6-56. Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for the owner of a dog or cat to:
- Generally: Permit or allow a dog or cat to be at large. Any dog or cat found at large shall be presumed to be so with the permission of its owner.
- Cemeteries: Permit or allow such dog or cat to be in any public cemetery at any time.
- Public Parks and Playgrounds: When signposted, permit such dog or cat to be in a public playground or park during the last Friday, Saturday, or Sunday of June each and every year, except if such animal is a part of an organized public activity.
Section 6-59. Confinement
The owner of any dog or cat in heat shall confine the animal in a building.
Section 6-60 & 6-61. Sanitation
The owner of a dog or cat must clean up the excrement of that animal as soon as possible, both on their own and others' premises.
Waterloo City Code:
Section 7-2. Swine
Swine are not to be kept in city limits. This includes pot- bellied pigs.
Section 7-4 Dead Animals
Property owner is required to remove dead animal from premises within twenty-four(24) hours.
Section 7-5 Traps
No person shall use any steel, claw, leg hold, or conibear trap.
Section 7-14.A3 Dangerous animals
The following animals shall be deemed dangerous animals, but not limited to: Lions, Tigers, Jaguars, Leopards, Cougars, Lynx, Ocelots and Bobcats; Black bears, Polar bears, and Grizzly bears; Crocodiles and Alligators; all venomous and constricting snakes; wolves and foxes; wolverines and weasels. A ferret shall not be deemed dangerous.
Section 7-44 Animal at large
It shall be unlawful for the owner of a dog or cat to permit such animal to be at large.
Section 7-45 Animal attacks
It shall be unlawful for the owner of a dog or cat to attack persons, domestic animals or destroy property, or to permit such dog or cat to place persons in reasonable fear of injury.
Section 7-49 & Section 50 Impoundment
If a dog or cat is impounded at the Cedar Bend Humane Society, it will be kept for five(5) days if it does not have a license on it or seven (7) days if it does. After that time the animal will become the property of the Cedar Bend Humane Society
Section 7-51 Animal Bites
It is the duty of the owner of a cat or dog or any animal that has bitten a person, or anyone having knowledge of such a bite, to report this to the Cedar Bend Humane Society.
Section 7-52 Rabies
The owner must confine the animal suspected of having rabies in the manner and place the official of the Health Department, Police Department or Humane Officer directs or it shall be impounded for ten(10) days and may be humanely destroyed.
Section 7-53 Cruelty to animals:
Person who shall torture, torment, mutilate, cruelly beat, kill any animal, unnecessarily fail to provide with adequate feed and water, shelter from weather or cruelly abandon, or shall commit any other act of omission by which unjustifiable pain, distress, suffering or death is caused will be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 7-55 Noisy, annoying animals:
It shall be unlawful for the owner of a dog, cat or any other animal to permit said animal to cause serious annoyance to anyone. After the first warning, three(3) adjoining neighbors, willing to testify in court, must sign a citation.
Section 7-56 & 7-57 Sanitation
Any owner or person in charge of an animal must clean up the animal's droppings whether on their own property or another's.
Section 7-58 Animals in heat
The owner of any female dog or cat in heat shall confine it in a building, or keep the same in his presence so that said female cannot come into contact with another animal, except for planned breeding.
Section 7-62 Interference
No person shall interfere with either a police officer or humane officer in the exercise of his powers.
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