(A) (1) Animals shall be impounded for a minimum of five working days before further disposition. If an animal is licensed or has other identification, the impoundment shall be for five working days. Reasonable effort shall be made to notify the owner of any animal wearing a license or other identification during that time.
(2) Notice shall be deemed given when sent to the last known address of the listed owner. Any animal voluntarily relinquished to the animal control facility by the owner thereof, for destruction or other disposition need not be kept for the minimum holding period before release or other disposition, as herein provided.
(B) (1) All animals, except those quarantined or confined by court order, or those subject to U.C.A. § 4-25-4, which are held longer than the minimum impoundment period, and all animals voluntarily relinquished to the impound facility, may be destroyed. Any healthy dog or cat may be sold after payment of all applicable fees.
(2) Other small animals, not included as livestock, may also be sold at the discretion of the Animal Control Department.
(C) Any licensed animal impounded and having or suspected of having serious physical injury or contagious disease requiring medical attention, may, at the discretion of the Animal Control Officer be released to the care of a veterinarian with or without the consent of the owner.
(D) When, in the judgment of an Animal Control Officer, it is determined that an animal should be destroyed for humane reasons or to protect the public from imminent danger to persons or property, such animal may be destroyed without regard to any time limitation otherwise established in this chapter, and without court order.
(E) (1) An Animal Control Officer may destroy any animal upon request of the owner, without transporting the animal to county facilities.
(2) An appropriate fee may be charged the owner of the destruction and any subsequent disposal of the carcass done by the Animal Control Department.
(Prior Code, § 4.05.040) (Ord. 02-25, passed 8-15-2002)