(A) The animal control authority is authorized to capture and impound any animal upon having probable cause to believe the animal to be in violation of this chapter and/or of any of the other ordinances of state law, which authorizes or requires the animal's capture and impoundment.
(B) If, by identification tag, the owner of an impounded animal can be identified, the ACA will make every attempt to return the animal to its home and notify the owner of any violations witnessed by the ACA. Written warnings may be issued to owners. Violators may be impounded and/or citations may be issued to owners of said animal.
(C) All impounded animals shall be kept for not less than five calendar days. After this period of time, the animal shall be released to the animal control facility and either placed for adoption or humanely destroyed at the discretion of the animal control authority. No record shall be kept by the city as to the disposition of an animal after its release.
(D) Any animal, whether licensed or unlicensed, which in the professional judgment of the animal control authority, is in great pain and suffering due to injury from which the animal probably will not recover, or which appears to have rabies, and/or which is at-large and is posing an imminent danger to human beings or to other animals, may be destroyed as directed by the ACA in a humane manner.
(Ord. 03172021, passed 3-16-2021)