Boonville Animals creating public nuisance prohibited ordinance (§ 4-32)
Chapter 4: Animals and Fowl · Article II. Owner Responsibility
In short: Owners may not let an animal bark, cry or howl habitually, act aggressively toward others, or damage someone else's property; impound fees are owed on top of fines.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
It shall be a public nuisance for any owner or controlling party to allow or permit an animal to:
(1) Frequently and habitually barking, crying, yelping, or howling thereby causing the peace of any person to be disturbed multiple times in a compressed time period at the discretion of the animal control officer or other empowered city official; or
(2) Cause reasonably articulable fear or annoyance to a person in the immediate area or substantially interfere with the rights of persons, other than its owner to enjoyment of life or property by frequently displaying aggressive behavior, including, but not limited to, growling, charging, showing of the teeth, hissing, or raising of fur as determined by an animal control officer or other empowered city official.
(3) Damage the property of anyone other than its owner's.
If an animal is impounded as a result of creating a public nuisance, then all fees associated with impoundment shall be made payable to the city animal shelter in addition to any fines imposed by the court.
Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 4-32
Text from Supplement 8 (December 2025), through Ordinance 4678 of December 16, 2024.
Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.