A. It is the purpose and intent of this Chapter to establish the City's own program, including procedures for the control of potentially dangerous, dangerous and vicious dogs or animals, as recognized by Section 31683 of Chapter 9 (entitled "Potentially Dangerous and Vicious Dogs") of Division 14 of the California Food and Agricultural Code.
B. The City Council has found and determined that attacks by potentially dangerous or vicious dogs or animals on human beings and domestic animals are attributable to the failure of owners to register, confine and properly control vicious potentially dangerous, dangerous and/or vicious dogs or animals.
C. Potentially dangerous, dangerous and vicious dogs or animals are hereby declared a public nuisance.
D. For the purposes of this section, a person is peaceably and lawfully upon the private property of an owner or possessor of the animal when he or she is on the property in the performance of any duty imposed upon him or her by the laws of this state or any city or county, or by the laws or postal regulations of the United States, or when he or she is on the property upon express or implied invitation.
[Ord. No. 521, 10/23/13.]