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(A) (1) Upon payment of the license fee, the Municipal Clerk shall issue to the owner of a dog a license certificate and a metallic tag for each dog so licensed. The metallic tags shall be properly attached to the collar or harness of all dogs so licensed and shall entitle the owner to keep or harbor the said dog until December 31 following such licensing. In the event that a license tag is lost and upon satisfactory evidence that the original plate or tag was issued in accordance with the provisions herein, the Municipal Clerk shall issue a duplicate or new tag for the balance of the year for which the license tax has been paid and shall charge and collect a fee of $1 for each duplicate or new tag so issued. All license fees and collections shall be immediately credited to the General Fund.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Municipal Clerk to issue tags of a suitable design that are different in appearance each year.
(Prior Code, § 6-104)
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or cause to be removed the collar, harness or metallic tag from any licensed dog without the consent of the owner, keeper or possessor thereof.
(Prior Code, § 6-117)
Penalty, see § 90.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-526
It shall be unlawful for the owner, keeper or harborer of any dog to permit or allow such dog to wear any license, metallic tag or other municipal identification than that issued by the Municipal Clerk for a specific dog.
(Prior Code, § 6-106) Penalty, see § 90.99
It shall be the duty of the governing body whenever, in its opinion, the danger to the public safety from rabid dogs is great or imminent, to issue a proclamation ordering all persons owning, keeping or harboring any dog to muzzle the same or confine it for a period of not less than 90 days from the date of such proclamation or until such danger is passed. The dogs may be harbored by any good and sufficient means in a house, garage or yard on the premises wherein the said owner may reside. Upon issuing the proclamation, it shall be the duty of all persons owning, keeping or harboring any dog to confine the same, as herein provided.
(Prior Code, § 6-107)
(Prior Code, § 6-108) Penalty, see § 90.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-526
It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog to allow such dog to run at large at any time within the corporate limits of the municipality. It shall be the duty of the municipal law enforcement to cause any dog found to be running at large within the municipality to be taken up and impounded. The owner shall be liable for all costs of confinement. RUNNING AT LARGE shall mean any dog found off the premises of the owner and not under control of the owner or a responsible person.
(Prior Code, § 6-109) Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) The term VICIOUS DOG, as used herein, shall include the following:
(1) Any dog with a propensity, tendency or disposition to attack, to cause injury or damage or otherwise endanger the safety of human beings or domestic dogs;
(2) Any dog which attacks a human being one time or attacks a domestic dog on two or more occasions without provocation;
(3) Has been previously determined to be a potentially dangerous dog by the dog control authority and the owner has received notice of such determination and such dog again aggressively bites, attacks or endangers the safety of humans or domestic dogs. Any dog shall not be defined as a dangerous dog if the threat, any injury that is not a severe injury or the damage was sustained by a person who, at the time, was committing a willful trespass as defined in Neb. RS 20-203, 28-520 or 28-521 or any other tort upon the property of the owner of the dog, who was tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog, who has, in the past, been observed or reported to have tormented, abused or assaulted the dog, or who was committing or attempting to commit a crime.
(B) No person may own, harbor or care for a vicious dog, as defined, within with the municipal limits.
(C) The keeping, maintaining, owning or harboring of a vicious dog within the municipal limits is hereby declared a nuisance as being against the public safety.
(D) Whenever a nuisance exists as defined in the foregoing section, the municipality may proceed by a suit in a court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin and abate the same in a manner provided by law. In any criminal prosecution, the court, in addition to any penalty imposed, may enter an order of abatement as part of the judgment in said case.
(Prior Code, § 6-111) (Ord. 2020-01, passed 5-13-2020) Penalty, see § 90.99
It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder, delay or interfere with any municipal law enforcement who is performing any duty enjoined upon him or her by the provisions of this subchapter or to break open or in any manner directly or indirectly aid, counsel or advise the breaking open of the dog shelter any ambulance wagon or other vehicle used for the collecting or conveying of dogs to the shelter.
(Prior Code, § 6-112) Penalty, see § 90.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 28-906
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