(A) It shall be unlawful and an offense for any owner, as herein defined, within the corporate limits of the town to harbor, keep, or have possession of any vicious dog or animal as herein defined.
(B) It shall be the duty of the animal control officer, Chief of Police, or person authorized to seize and impound any dog or animal by him or her found to be vicious and, in such an event, to cause proceedings to be instituted in the Municipal Court against the owner of said dog or animal for violation of this section. If such seized and impounded dog or animal shall have bitten a human being one or more times before such seizure or impounding, the procedure set out in § 90.11 herein shall apply provided that said procedure shall be subject to the ultimate decision of the Municipal Court. In any event, if the Court shall fail to find that the dog or animal so seized and impounded is a vicious dog or animal, then the Court shall order (and it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause) the surrender and return of said dog or animal to the owner thereof, but in the event that such dog or animal is found by the Court to be a vicious dog or animal, the Court shall order the Chief of Police or person designated by him or her to destroy said vicious dog immediately.
(Prior Code, § 3-16) Penalty, see § 90.99