I'm in Charles city Iowa. City ordinance 55.08. If you ever had to deal with this ordinance and got some clarification on this ordinance id like to hear your input.
It's unlawful for the owner to allow or permit such a dog to cause a serious annoyance or disturbance to any person or persons by Frequent and habitual barking, yelping, howling.
Is letting them outside with the possibility of them barking, yelping, howling considered allowing and or permitting them to do so?
What would be considered a serious annoyance?
And what is considered frequent or habitual? How much barking is a dog allowed to do? None? 5 minutes worth?
I can't get ahold of a lawyer and the local police officer has no definitive answer on it.
Itd like it's open to interpretation.