1. No owner shall fail to provide his or her animals with sufficient wholesome and nutritious food, water in sufficient quantities, proper air, shelter space and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, and humane care and treatment.

2. Shelter and fencing (e.g., barn, coop, corral, pens, stables, yards, etc.) shall be provided to sufficiently contain the animals and keep them from roaming at large.

3. Shelters must be covered, predator-resistant, properly ventilated, and designed to be easily accessed, cleaned and maintained.

4. Shelters must be constructed and maintained to reduce the risk of fire in accordance with the Sedona Fire District.

5. All animals and the pens, stalls, corrals, stables, yards, shelters, cages, and premises where they are held or kept, shall be maintained in such a manner so as to not become a public health nuisance. Shelters and runs must be clean and sanitary, generally free of fecal and other matter that may attract flies, rodents, or cause an offensive odor that may disturb the comfort of any person.

6. Food for feeding animals shall be stored in rodent- and predator-resistant containers.

7. Watering troughs, tanks, or bowls shall be provided, which shall be equipped with adequate facilities for draining the overflow, so as to prevent the ponding of water, the breeding of flies, mosquitoes or other insects, or any additional health hazards.

1. The owner of every animal shall be responsible for the removal of excreta deposited by his or her animals on public walks, streets, recreation areas or private property.

2. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to prohibit the use of animal manure or droppings to fertilize any farm, garden, lawn or ranch in such a manner and for such purposes as are compatible with customary methods of good horticulture.

3. No incineration of animal refuse shall be permitted on the premises.

4. All animal keeping facilities must be designed in a manner such that water runoff does not become a health hazard or nuisance to uses on other properties and is contained and disposed of and does not contribute to the pollution of local groundwater or the flooding of adjacent properties.

5. All animal keeping facilities shall remain in compliance with city of Sedona Storm Water Discharge Code, Chapter 13.50 SCC.

6. No animal keeping facility shall be built or maintained on marshy ground or land subject to overflow (includes all FEMA and city of Sedona designated floodways), or within 150 feet of Oak Creek, or within 25 feet of any designated watercourse or other source of water supply.

7. Waste shall either be composted using best management practices with carbonaceous material such as hay, bedding, or leaves or stored in a sealed container until it is removed from the property. Manure and droppings shall be removed from the property and disposed of properly, in accordance with state and local laws, at least once a month.

8. Any manure and dropping storage area shall be contained and protected from rainfall and irrigation so that runoff does not carry pollutants and/or bacteria into watercourses.

9. Impervious surfaces on the property must use runoff control devices/structures to divert excess runoff around or away from the animal confinement area.

1. No person shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse an animal. No person shall cause, instigate or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight or other combat between animals or between animals and humans. This prohibition applies to events and activities taking place in either public or private facilities or property, regardless of the purpose of the event or activities and irrespective of whether or not a fee is charged to spectators.

2. No person shall own or harbor any animal for the purpose of fighting, nor train, torment, badger or bait any animal for the purpose of fighting, or for the purpose of causing or encouraging unprovoked attacks upon human beings or other animals.

3. No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal.

4. Any physical modification of an animal, such as crop a dog’s ears or dock a dog’s tail, shall be performed by a licensed veterinarian.

5. No person shall give away any live animal as a prize for, or as an inducement to enter, any contest, game or other competition, as an inducement to enter a place of amusement, or as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.

6. Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render such assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report such injury or death to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

7. No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be liable to be eaten by any animal, except on such person’s own property, common rat or insect poison placed in suitable containers.

8. It shall be unlawful for any business (as defined in the city tax code) within the limits of the city to allow any person to sell or give away any animal in front of or on the property of the business. This provision does not apply to the Sedona Humane Society or its mobile pet adoption program. [Code 2006 § 6-1-6. Ord. 2011-10 §§ 1(B), (C), 10-11-2011; Ord. 2017-05 § 1, 8-8-2017; Res. 2017-18 Exh. A, 8-8-2017; Ord. 2019-01 § 1, 2-26-2019; Res. 2019-02 Exh. A, 2-26-2019. Formerly 6.05.060].