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(a) The owner or person entitled to possession of any dog impounded under the provisions of this article may redeem such dog at any time prior to the sale or other disposition thereof upon satisfactory proof of his right to possession and payment of the expense, if any, incurred in making the impoundment; the expense incurred for sustenance, shelter and care of the impounded dog; the expense incurred for giving notice; the expense incurred for advertising a sale, retention of an auctioneer and related items; and any other expense actually incurred; provided, that no dog shall be redeemed for less than one dollar ($1.00) for each day such dog was impounded.
(b) No impounded dog shall be sold, destroyed or otherwise disposed of except by release to its owner or some other person lawfully entitled to its custody until not less than five days have elapsed since its impoundment.
(1976 Code Sec. 4-17)
Impounded dogs not redeemed by their owners or others entitled to their custody within five days of their impoundment may be disposed of in accordance with the law governing the pound; provided, that no dog shall be destroyed except in a humane manner, and no dog shall be destroyed if a responsible person applies for release to his custody and he agrees to provide the dog with a home and subsistence and to abide by the requirements of this article.
(1976 Code Sec. 4-18)
(a) No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog known by him, or which, in the exercise of reasonable diligence, he should know, to be suffering with rabies. Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of this subsection (a) shall be compelled to destroy such animal, in addition to any penalty which may be adjudged against him.
(b) Any police officer shall kill by shooting any dog known by him to be suffering with rabies. (1976 Code Sec. 4-19)
(EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 501.99 for general Code penalty if no specific penalty is provided.)
Whoever violates Section 507.02 shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00) for the first offense, thirty dollars ($30.00) for a second offense and forty dollars ($40.00) for each subsequent offense. (10-27-75)