Chapter 8.08
OFFENSES AGAINST WATERFOWL

Sections

8.08.010    Definitions.

8.08.020    Prohibited acts – Persons.

8.08.030    Prohibited acts – Dogs.

8.08.040    Violation – Penalty.

8.08.010 Definitions.

(1) Use of Words and Phrases. As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter clearly requires otherwise, the words or phrases defined in this section shall have the indicated meanings.

(2) “Permit” means ownership, accompaniment, or control of a dog that disturbs, molests, catches, injures, or kills a waterfowl.

(3) “Waterfowl” means a warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers and forelimbs modified into wings (birds) that have aquatic characteristics in their natural state, and includes without limitation, ducks, geese, sea gulls, and the like. [Ord. 926 § 1, 1992.]

8.08.020 Prohibited acts – Persons.

No person shall engage in the following acts toward a waterfowl: to tease, annoy, disturb, molest, catch, injure, or kill, or throw a stone or missile at or strike with a stick or weapon. [Ord. 926 § 2, 1992.]

8.08.030 Prohibited acts – Dogs.

No person shall permit a dog to engage in the following acts toward a waterfowl: to disturb, molest, catch, injure, or kill a waterfowl. [Ord. 926 § 3, 1992.]

8.08.040 Violation – Penalty.

(1) No person shall violate or fail to comply with this chapter.

(2) A violation of or failure to comply with this section is a class 3 civil infraction.

(3) Each waterfowl that is the object of the conduct prohibited in DMMC 8.08.020 and 8.08.030 constitutes a separate offense. [Ord. 1009 § 46, 1993: Ord. 926 §§ 4, 5, 1992.]